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🙈 To cover eyes 🩹 A cloth for eyes 😶‍🌫️ Wearing eye cover
to blindfold

to blindfold

59 3.0
To cover someone's eyes with a cloth so they cannot see
  • verb
  • /ˈblaɪndˌfoʊld/
translation icon : vendar (los ojos) a alguien
  • Each contestant will be blindfolded and placed on separate floors of this building.
  • participants were blindfolded
  • subjects were blindfolded
  • walk blindfolded

We are then blindfolded and put in the back of a van, right?

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Examples

  • To make the game more challenging, we will blindfold the players so they can't see.

  • Students and the classroom teacher sat blindfolded with their lunches in front of them on the table.

    Academic text (2000)

  • And then I had put a blindfold over her eyes.

  • So now my friends, I'm going to blindfold myself, open these up and see if I can guess what the gift is.

    iJustine

  • We are then blindfolded and put in the back of a van, right?

    Happy Hour Podcast

  • Well, they blindfold us and we have to eat the bananas as fast as we can.

    Theo Von

  • So Jackson's birthday comes, we blindfold my girlfriend and rig it so that she gets the pizza face up and we do it successfully.

  • But it looks like Peter La Fleur has actually blindfolded himself.

    DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story (2004)

  • They blindfolded me when they drove me here.

    So Undercover (2012)

  • Group members would take turns leading each other (one member blindfolded) through an obstacle course.

    Academic text (1991)

Synonyms

to put a blindfold on
vsto blindfold
4.2

Cover someone's eyes with cloth so they cannot see

focuses on covering someone else's eyes rather than covering oneself

Phrasal Verbs

to put a blindfold on
4.2

Cover someone's eyes with cloth so they cannot see

How Covered

to shroud
38 6.0
to hood
4 7.3
to cover
∞ 1.0
to drape
83 4.3
to blindfold
59 3.0

Surface Forms

blindfold infinitive
blindfolded past
blindfolded past participle
blindfolding present participle
blindfolds third person singular

Morphology

blindfold = blind + fold (semi-transparent) = blind + fold

The word is clearly built from 'blind' and 'fold', but the specialized meaning 'cover the eyes with a cloth' is somewhat lexicalized rather than fully compositional.

Etymology

Blindfold comes from two simple words, blind ('not able to see') and fold ('to fold over'). Think of folding a cloth over someone's eyes, which is exactly what it means to blindfold someone.