to blinker
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- verb
- /ˈblɪŋkər/
:
poner anteojeras a
- To minimize distractions, she blinkered the horse before the competition began.
- blinkered vision
Examples
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Before the event, the jockey blinkered the horse to help it concentrate on the track.
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Seeing what's possible is sometimes worse than being blinkered.
Fiction book (2002) -
This blinkered vision will likely compromise them as artists no less than as human beings.
Academic text (1992) -
Extraordinary minds locked up in laboratories 24/7, so obsessed with their projects that they become blinkered.
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The party, if it continues to act blinkered, backward, and patronizing, continues to fail to recognize and respect that power, is going to pay a price.
Blog text (15) -
The assumption that humans can extract energy from any source (and, by the way, do so without consuming any more limited resources) at whatever rate they choose is blinkered.
Blog text (8) -
Blinkered by need, they had come of age with narrower commitments—to the glory of God, the glee of acquisition, or the mean little business of survival.
Fiction book (1997) -
The trainer decided to blinker the horse to keep it focused during the race.
Synonyms
To put eye covers on a horse or to make someone ignore other ideas
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Etymology
Blinker as a verb comes from the same source: it means to put blinkers on a horse so its view is smaller. In short, to blinker a horse is to help it focus by limiting its side vision.