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

blindfold

3.0
Wearing a cloth over the eyes so they cannot see
  • adjective
  • /ˈblaɪndfoʊld/
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  • The magician amazed everyone by making the volunteer complete a task while wearing a blindfold.

Examples

  • During the game, all participants wore a blindfold to test their other senses.

  • Oh, should I be blindfold so I don't see myself?

  • And then it's a, blindfold, bullet, unmarked grave.

    The War Below (2021)

  • She tied a blindfold over her eyes to concentrate on her other senses during the meditation.

Synonyms

blindfolded
vsblindfold
3.9

Wearing a cloth over the eyes so you cannot see

is the noun or verb form for the same act rather than an adjective

How Blind

blind
520 1.0
blindfold
3.0
sighted
1.3

Surface Forms

blindfold positive

Morphology

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

The adjective is transparently related to the idea of having the eyes covered, but the exact adjectival use is lexicalized rather than fully predictable from the parts alone.

Etymology

Blindfold as an adjective also joins blind ('not able to see') and fold ('to fold over'), giving the image of a cloth folded over the eyes. That is why a blindfold person is someone with their eyes covered and unable to see.