What is the meaning of blind?

noun

• People who have severe visual impairments, considered as a group.
  • usage: "he spent hours reading to the blind"
• A hiding place sometimes used by hunters (especially duck hunters. )
  • usage: "he waited impatiently in the blind"
• A protective covering that keeps things out or hinders sight.
  • usage: "they had just moved in and had not put up blinds yet"
  • synonyms: screen
• Something intended to misrepresent the true nature of an activity.
  • usage: "he wasn't sick-it was just a subterfuge"; "the holding company was just a blind"
  • synonyms: subterfuge

verb

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

adjective

• Unable to see."a person is blind to the extent that he must devise alternative techniques to do efficiently those things he would do with sight if he had normal vision-Kenneth Jernigan
  • synonyms: unsighted
• Unable or unwilling to perceive or understand.
  • usage: "blind to a lover's faults"; "blind to the consequences of their actions"
• Not based on reason or evidence.
  • usage: "blind hatred"; "blind faith"; "unreasoning panic"
  • synonyms: unreasoning