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stone-blind

American  
[stohn-blahynd] / ˈstoʊnˈblaɪnd /

adjective

  1. completely blind.


stone-blind British  

adjective

  1. completely blind Compare sand-blind

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Synonym Usage

See blind.

Other Word Forms


Etymology

Origin of stone-blind

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


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The late, great Joseph Pulitzer, founder of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, suffered all his life from weak eyes, was stone-blind when he died in 1911.

From Time Magazine Archive

By the second week, everyone knew perfectly well what was going on, yet everyone tried to look as if they were stone-blind to the changes in Jo’s face.

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott

Rolled Oats, double column agate every other week, and a lot more things, till we're stone-blind and black in the face.

From The Bread Line A Story of a Paper by Albert Bigelow Paine

He was still hunched up in the record-man's chair, and to all appearances had gone stone-blind crazy.

From The Wreckers by Francis Lynde

Do ’ee s’pose I’ve turned stone-blind, do ’ee?

From The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse by Mayne Reid

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