gravel-blind

[ grav-uhl-blahynd ]

/ ˈgræv əlˌblaɪnd /

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adjective Literary.

more blind or dim-sighted than sand-blind and less than stone-blind.

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Origin of gravel-blind

First recorded in 1590–1600

Words nearby gravel-blind

gravamen, grave, graveclothes, gravedigger, gravel, gravel-blind, graveldiver, gravelly, gravel-voiced, Gravely, graven

How to use gravel-blind in a sentence

The numbers reinforce another article in the Post, in which cops confessed to “turning a blind eye” to minor crimes.
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And in this era of impact-blind, across-the-board budget cuts, we see an opportunity.
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What designer West lacks in productivity, he more than makes up for in pure, unadulterated confidence and blind anger.
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Sandra Bullock won for ‘The Blind Side’ and Al Pacino lost for both Godfather movies.
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They dress in clothing from the flophouse lost-and-found and are groomed with a hacksaw and gravel rake.
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On May 13 Polavieja arrived in Barcelona physically broken, half blind, and with evident traces of a disordered liver.
The Philippine Islands|John Foreman
The blind Samson of labor will seize upon the pillars of society and bring them down in a common destruction.
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Suddenly his quick eye lit on something in the gravel path and his heart gave a great leap.
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I do not wholly like these cold and stately English, yet I think I am not blind to their many sterling qualities.
Glances at Europe|Horace Greeley
Some chickens were clucking outside the windows, scratching for bits of gravel in the grass.
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British Dictionary definitions for gravel-blind

gravel-blind

adjective

literary almost entirely blind

Word Origin for gravel-blind

C16: from gravel + blind, formed on the model of sand-blind

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