Sharping and Blinding

verb

• Render unable to see.
  • synonyms: blind
• Make blind by putting the eyes out.
  • usage: "The criminals were punished and blinded"
  • synonyms: blind
• Make dim by comparison or conceal.
  • synonyms: blind, dim

adjective

• Shining intensely.
  • usage: "the blazing sun"; "blinding headlights"; "dazzling snow"; "fulgent patterns of sunlight"; "the glaring sun"
  • synonyms: blazing, dazzling, fulgent, glaring, glary

• (a.) Making blind or as if blind; depriving of sight or of understanding; obscuring; as, blinding tears; blinding snow.
• (n.) A thin coating of sand and fine gravel over a newly paved road. See Blind, v. t., 4.
• (p.pr.&vb.n.) of Blind.