Blindfold

Definition: Blindfold

Blindfold

Adjective

1. Wearing a blindfold.

Noun

1. A cloth used to cover the eyes.

Verb

1. Cover the eyes of someone to prevent him from seeing.

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Date "blindfold" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1532. (references)

Dream Interpretation

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Synonym: Blindfold

Concealment

Keep in the dark, leave in the dark, keep in the ignorance; blind, blind the eyes; blindfold, hoodwink, mystify; puzzle; (render uncertain); bamboozle; (deceive).

Deception

Verb: deceive, take in; defraud, cheat, jockey, do, cozen, diddle, nab, chouse, play one false, bilk, cully, jilt, bite, pluck, swindle, victimize; abuse; mystify; blind one's eyes; blindfold, hoodwink; throw dust into the eyes; dupe, gull, hoax, fool, befool, bamboozle, flimflam, hornswoggle; trick.

Crosswords: Blindfold

Well, I'll blindfold you then (Gilmore Girls; writing credit: Povl Erik Carstensen; Sebastian Dorset)

When Brian Boitano was in the Olympics skating for the Gold he did two salchows and a triple lutz while wearing a blindfold. (South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut; writing credit: Trey Parker; Matt Stone)

Blindfold (1965)

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Books

• Blindfold (reference)

• Blindfold Games (reference)

• Blindfold of Justice (reference)

• Blindfold on a Tightrope (reference)

• Courage Beyond the Blindfold (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• American Blindfold (reference)

• Readymade Blindfold Theater: Soundtracks [IMPORT] [SOUNDTRACK] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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The numbers have been drawn -- time to take the blindfold off and see what they say. Credit: Library of Congress.

Blindfold test for aroma of cooked dehydrated spinach. Regional agricultural research laboratory, Albany, California. Credit: Library of Congress.

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I feel sure, now, that the most absolute Atheist may be leading, though walking blindfold, a pure and noble life

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Albanian

verbërisht (blindly), qorrazi, me sytë të lidhur (blindfolded). (various references)

Arabic 

‏متهور (audacious, blind, blindfolded, brash, careless, daredevil, daredevilry, desperate, devil may care, excessive, extravagant, foolhardy, harum scarum, hasty, headlong, heady, heedless, hot-headed, immaterial, impetuous, impish, imprudent, impulsive, inconsiderate, light-headed, madcap, precipitate, precipitous, rash, reckless, slapdash, temerarious, too hasty, unrestrained, unwary), ‏عصب العينين (muffle), ‏جار بعينين معصوبتين. (various references)

Bulgarian 

слепешката, с вързани очи, безразсъдно (foolishly, unadvisedly). (various references)

Chinese 

�'�住眼睛. (various references)

Czech

zavázat oèi komu, páska (armlet, tape). (various references)

Danish

blindskrivning (blindfold writing), blindforsøg (blindfold test), dobbeltblindforsoeg (double blindfold test), dobbelt-blind forsøg (blindfold test). (various references)

Dutch

blind schrijven (blindfold writing), dubbel blind proef (double blindfold test). (various references)

Farsi 

چشم بستن , کورکردن (Abacinate, Blind), باچشم بسته . (various references)

Finnish

sitoa jonkun silmät (bandage a person's eyes, blindfold a person). (various references)

French

bander les yeux, bandeau, indifférent (blindfolded), aux yeux bandés (blindfolded). (various references)

German

blindlings (blindly), verblenden (blind, face), mit verbundenen augen, die augen verbinden, augenbinde (eye bandage, eye patch). (various references)

Greek 

στα τυφλά (beardless), με δεμένα μάτια. (various references)

Hebrew 

לקשור עי� ים. (various references)

Hungarian

beköti a szemét, bekötött szemmel (blindfolded), bekötött szemû, bekötött szemű, vaktában (at haphazard, at large, at random, by haphazard, hit or miss), vakon (blindly, unseeingly), vakmerően (boldly, headfirst, recklessly), merészen (boldly, daringly), meggondolatlan (blundering, foolhardy, hare-brained, hasty, headlong, heedless, ill-advised, ill-considered, ill-judged, impetuous, impolitic, imprudent, impudent, incautious, injudicious, precipitate, rash, reckless, thoughtless, to lack ballast, unadvised, unreflecting, unthinking, unwary), elvakultan (amok, amuck). (various references)

Indonesian

penutup mata (blinker). (various references)

Italian

bendare gli occhi a, bendare (bandage, dress, fasten, muffle), benda (band, bandage, patch), con gli occhi bendati, ciecamente, alla cieca. (various references)

Manx

doallag (dormouse), doalanagh, cur doallag er, coodaghey ny sooillyn jeh. (various references)

Pig Latin

indfoldblay.(various references)

Portuguese

vendar os olhos (hood, hoodwink), de olhos vendados, cegamente (blindly, implicitly), � s cegas. (various references)

Romanian

legat la ochi, lega la ochi (hoodwink). (various references)

Russian 

вслепую (blindfolded). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

vezati oči (hoodwink), vezanih očiju (blindfolded), slepo (blindly), povez preko očiju, nasumice (adrift, pell mell, random, random: at random, venture: at a venture). (various references)

Spanish

con los ojos vendados. (various references)

Swedish

binda för ögonen på, ögonbindel. (various references)

Thai

เอาผ้าปิ�"ตา, สิ่งที่ใช้ปิ�"ตา, ปิ�"บัง (cover, enshroud, hold back, obscure). (various references)

Turkish

körü körüne olan, körü körüne (blindly, gropingly, imprudently, slavish), gözlerini bağlamak (hoodwink), gözleri bağlı olarak, gözleri bağlı, gözünü kör etmek, düşüncesizce (carelessly, headfirst, headforemost, headlong, ill-considered, impulsively, offhand, rashly, tactlessly, thoughtlessly), düşüncesiz (blind, brusque, careless, flighty, freewheeling, gauche, half-baked, headfirst, headforemost, headlong, heady, ill-advised, ill-judged, imprudent, impulsive, incautious, inconsiderate, indiscreet, injudicious, mindless, out of turn, rash, reckless, slapdash, tactless, thoughtless, unadvised, unmindful, unreflecting, unthinking, wanton, without tact, witless). (various references)

Ukrainian

нерозсудливо (blindly, madly, unadvisedly), наосліп, зав'язувати очі, з зав'язаними очами, пов'язка на очах. (various references)

Welsh

mygydu. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "blindfold": blindfolded, blindfolding, blindfolds. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Blindfold" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Slinfold. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-3 letters: bifold, billon, infold.

-4 letters: blind, blond, dildo, fillo, indol.

-5 letters: bill, bind, blin, boil, bold, boll, bond, dido, dill, diol, doll, fido, fill, filo, find, fino, foil, foin, fold, fond, idol, info, lido, lino, lion, loin, nill, nodi, noil.

+1 letter: blindfolds.

+2 letters: blindfolded.

+3 letters: blindfolding.