stone-blind

[ stohn-blahynd ]

/ ˈstoʊnˈblaɪnd /

adjective

completely blind.

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Origin of stone-blind

1325–75; Middle English (north) staneblynde; see stone, blind

synonym study for stone-blind

See blind.

OTHER WORDS FROM stone-blind

stone·blind·ness, noun

Words nearby stone-blind

stone shoot, stone walls do not a prison make, stone's throw, stone's throw, a, stone-, stone-blind, stone-broke, stone-cold, stone-dead, stone-deaf, stone-ground

Example sentences from the Web for stone-blind

Am I stone-blind that I cannot be left in peace to read my paper, as I have done these forty years?
The Fortunes of the Farrells|Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
We found out later that the old mare was stone-blind and locoed.
Land of the Burnt Thigh|Edith Eudora Kohl
One of these men, stone-blind, was begging in the streets of Toronto.
Sketches in Canada, and rambles among the red men|Anna Brownell Jameson
They were at the top of the house, very near the fire-escape, with a half-blind entry and a stone-blind pantry.
Haunted London|Walter Thornbury

Jena is full of them (not mine, Gott sei Dank, but other people's) and they are all stone-blind.
Frulein Schmidt and Mr. Anstruther|Elizabeth von Arnim

British Dictionary definitions for stone-blind

stone-blind

adjective

completely blindCompare sand-blind

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