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to put a blindfold on

to put a blindfold on

4.2
Cover someone's eyes with cloth so they cannot see
  • phrasal verb
translation icon : poner una venda
  • In the game of trust, one player had to put a blindfold on while the others guided them through a maze.

Every night's a threesome or the one just kind of has to put a blindfold on.

Examples

  • It's like if, if you, if I put a blindfold on you and I said, OK, here's a dart, Evan, good luck, You know, try to hit a bull's eye.

  • Before the magic show, the magician instructed everyone to put a blindfold on to increase the sense of mystery.

  • To see how well he could navigate without sight, his friends decided to put a blindfold on him and lead him through the obstacle course.

Synonyms

to blindfold
vsto put a blindfold on
59 3.0

To cover someone's eyes with a cloth so they cannot see

also allows covering oneself, not only another person

Antonyms

to reveal
∞ 2.3

Show something that was hidden or secret

to uncover
37 2.7

Remove a cover to show what is under it

Surface Forms

put a blindfold on infinitive
put a blindfolded on past
put a blindfolded on past participle
putting a blindfold on present participle
puts a blindfold on third person singular

Morphology

put + a + blindfold + on

The meaning 'to cover someone's eyes with a blindfold' is transparently built from 'put' (place), 'blindfold' (a cloth that blocks vision) and the particle 'on' (apply to), following the common English pattern 'put X on'. This compositional pattern is cross-linguistically frequent and would be directly understandable to a B1 learner who knows the constituent words.

Etymology

Put a blindfold on comes from the simple image of putting a piece of cloth, a blindfold, over someone's eyes so they 'can't see'. So it means 'to cover someone's eyes with a blindfold'.