blinder

English

Etymology

From blind +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

Adjective

blinder

  1. comparative form of blind: more blind
    • 1830, William Pashley, The Voice of Reason in Defence of the Christian Faith:
      Ye who arrogate to yourselves that ye see more, or at least are not so blind as others; in your unbelieving conduct, allow me to say, ye are blinder than others; ye are even blinder than the most ignorant and illiterate.

Noun

blinder (plural blinders)

  1. Something that blinds.
  2. A bag or cloth put over the head of a difficult horse while it is being handled or mounted.
  3. A screen attached to a horse's bridle preventing it from being able to see things to its side.
    • 1969, Kenzaburō Ōe, A Personal Matter, translated by John Nathan, New York: Grove Press, Chapter 5, p. 84,
      From both sides of his head a blackness swiftly grew like blinders on a horse and darkly narrowed his field of vision.
    • 1978 Edward Said, Orientalism, New York: Vinatage, 2003, Chapter 3, Part I, p. 207,
      Orientalism itself, furthermore, was an exclusively male province; like so many professional guilds during the modern period, it viewed itself and its subject matter with sexist blinders.
  4. (Britain, slang) An exceptional performance.
    He played a blinder this afternoon on the cricket ground.
    • 1992, Glyn Maxwell, "Out of the Rain" in Boys at Twilight: Poems 1990 to 1995, New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, p. 91,
      And we asked the blue winger, who in our game / had played what they call a blinder, to help out
  5. (slang) A bout of heavy drinking, a bender.
    • 1985, John Maxton, Hansard, 2 May, 1985,
      If a man goes out on a blinder, he might be charged with being drunk and incapable and therefore have a criminal record, although he is an honourable man.
  6. (theater) A bright light used to blind the audience temporarily during a scene change.
    • 1992, The Lighting Journal (page 9)
      When the 'blinders' are switched off, and the audience's eyes given time to re-adjust, the new scene is in place […]

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Verb

blinder (third-person singular simple present blinders, present participle blindering, simple past and past participle blindered)

  1. (transitive) To fit (a horse) with blinders.
  2. (transitive, figuratively, by extension) To obstruct the vision of.
    • 1958, Sylvia Plath, "Above the Oxbow" in The Collected Poems, New York: Harper & Row, p. 88,
      […] We climb in hopes / Of such seeing up the leaf-shuttered escarpments, / Blindered by green, under a green-grained sky
    • 1986, Tessa Albert Warschaw, Rich is Better: How Women Can Bridge the Gap Between Wanting and Having It All — Financially, Emotionally, Professionally, Penguin, p. 248,
      They think they're being focussed when they're really just blindering their eyes, as a farmer would a plough horse, to ways of getting to their goal faster.

Anagrams

French

Etymology

From blinde +‎ -er.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /blɛ̃.de/
  • Audio(file)

Verb

blinder

  1. to armor; to reinforce

Conjugation
Conjugation of blinder (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive simple blinder
compound avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1 simple blindant
/blɛ̃.dɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
past participle blindé
/blɛ̃.de/
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle, on nous vous ils, elles
(simple
tenses)		 present blinde
/blɛ̃d/		 blindes
/blɛ̃d/		 blinde
/blɛ̃d/		 blindons
/blɛ̃.dɔ̃/		 blindez
/blɛ̃.de/		 blindent
/blɛ̃d/
imperfect blindais
/blɛ̃.dɛ/		 blindais
/blɛ̃.dɛ/		 blindait
/blɛ̃.dɛ/		 blindions
/blɛ̃.djɔ̃/		 blindiez
/blɛ̃.dje/		 blindaient
/blɛ̃.dɛ/
past historic2 blindai
/blɛ̃.de/		 blindas
/blɛ̃.da/		 blinda
/blɛ̃.da/		 blindâmes
/blɛ̃.dam/		 blindâtes
/blɛ̃.dat/		 blindèrent
/blɛ̃.dɛʁ/
future blinderai
/blɛ̃.dʁe/		 blinderas
/blɛ̃.dʁa/		 blindera
/blɛ̃.dʁa/		 blinderons
/blɛ̃.dʁɔ̃/		 blinderez
/blɛ̃.dʁe/		 blinderont
/blɛ̃.dʁɔ̃/
conditional blinderais
/blɛ̃.dʁɛ/		 blinderais
/blɛ̃.dʁɛ/		 blinderait
/blɛ̃.dʁɛ/		 blinderions
/blɛ̃.də.ʁjɔ̃/		 blinderiez
/blɛ̃.də.ʁje/		 blinderaient
/blɛ̃.dʁɛ/
(compound
tenses)		 present perfect present indicative of avoir + past participle
pluperfect imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
past anterior2 past historic of avoir + past participle
future perfect future of avoir + past participle
conditional perfect conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive que je (j’) que tu qu’il, qu’elle que nous que vous qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple
tenses)		 present blinde
/blɛ̃d/		 blindes
/blɛ̃d/		 blinde
/blɛ̃d/		 blindions
/blɛ̃.djɔ̃/		 blindiez
/blɛ̃.dje/		 blindent
/blɛ̃d/
imperfect2 blindasse
/blɛ̃.das/		 blindasses
/blɛ̃.das/		 blindât
/blɛ̃.da/		 blindassions
/blɛ̃.da.sjɔ̃/		 blindassiez
/blɛ̃.da.sje/		 blindassent
/blɛ̃.das/
(compound
tenses)		 past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — blinde
/blɛ̃d/		 — blindons
/blɛ̃.dɔ̃/		 blindez
/blɛ̃.de/		 —
compound — simple imperative of avoir + past participle — simple imperative of avoir + past participle simple imperative of avoir + past participle —
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
  • past historic → present perfect
  • past anterior → pluperfect
  • imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive
  • pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive

(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Derived terms

Descendants
  • → Italian: blindare
  • → Portuguese: blindar
  • → Spanish: blindar

Further reading

German

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈblɪndɐ/
  • Audio(file)

Adjective

blinder

  1. comparative degree of blind

Adjective

blinder

  1. inflection of blind:
    1. strong/mixed nominative masculine singular
    2. strong genitive/dative feminine singular
    3. strong genitive plural

Old Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse blindr, from Proto-Germanic *blindaz.

Adjective

blinder

  1. blind
  2. invisible, obscure

Declension
Declension of blinder (strong)
singular masculine feminine neuter
nominative blinder blind blint
accusative blindan blinda blint
dative blindum, -om blindri, -re blindu, -o
genitive blinds blindrar blinds
plural masculine feminine neuter
nominative blindir, -e(r) blindar blind
accusative blinda blindar blind
dative blindum, -om blindum, -om blindum, -om
genitive blindra, -a blindra, -a blindra, -a
Declension of blinder (weak)
singular masculine feminine neuter
nominative blindi, -e blinda blinda
accusative blinda blindu, -o blinda
dative blinda blindu, -o blinda
genitive blinda blindu, -o blinda
plural masculine feminine neuter
nominative blindu, -o blindu, -o blindu, -o
accusative blindu, -o blindu, -o blindu, -o
dative blindu, -o blindu, -o blindu, -o
genitive blindu, -o blindu, -o blindu, -o

Descendants

Welsh

Etymology

From blin +‎ -der.

Pronunciation

Noun

blinder m (plural blinderau)

  1. (uncountable) tiredness, weariness, fatigue
  2. (countable) trouble, affliction

Derived terms
  • blinderog (“weary, tired”)
  • blinderus (“wearisome, tiring; troublesome, troubling”)

Mutation
Welsh mutation
radicalsoftnasalaspirate
blinder flinder mlinder unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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