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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Blind v. t. [imp. & p. p. Blinded; p. pr. & vb. n. Blinding.]
 1. To make blind; to deprive of sight or discernment. “To blind the truth and me.”
    A blind guide is certainly a great mischief; but a guide that blinds those whom he should lead is . . .  a much greater.   --South.
 2. To deprive partially of vision; to make vision difficult for and painful to; to dazzle.
    Her beauty all the rest did blind.   --P. Fletcher.
 3. To darken; to obscure to the eye or understanding; to conceal; to deceive.
    Such darkness blinds the sky.   --Dryden.
    The state of the controversy between us he endeavored, with all his art, to blind and confound.   --Stillingfleet.
 4. To cover with a thin coating of sand and fine gravel; as a road newly paved, in order that the joints between the stones may be filled.

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 blinded
      adj : deprived of sight