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😵‍💫 Unable to see 😵‍💫 To blind with snow
to snow-blind

to snow-blind

7.8
To make someone unable to see for a short time because bright light from snow enters their eyes
  • verb
  • /snoʊ blaɪnd/
  • UK
translation icon : cegar por la nieve
  • If you stay out in the bright snow too long, you might become snow-blind.

Examples

  • The reflection of the sun on the snow made me feel as though I was going snow-blind.

  • " I'm going snow-blind."

    Fiction book (1996)

  • She covered her eyes because the sun on the snow was so bright that it almost left her snow-blind.

How Blinding

to blind
104 3.7
to snow-blind
  • UK
7.8
to dazzle
6 4.1
glare
37 3.3

Surface Forms

snow-blind infinitive
snow-blinded past
snow-blinded past participle
snow-blinding present participle
snow-blinds third person singular

Morphology

snow-blind = snow-blind (transparent) = snow + blind

The verb is a straightforward conversion from the compound adjective 'snow-blind', whose meaning is directly recoverable from 'snow' and 'blind'.

Etymology

Snow-blind as a verb means to make someone 'unable to see' for a short time because bright snow reflects sunlight into their eyes, so to snow-blind someone is to blind them temporarily with reflected light.