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stone-blind

[stohn-blahynd]

adjective

  1. completely blind.



stone-blind

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
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Other Word Forms

  • stoneblindness noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of stone-blind1

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

See blind.
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Example Sentences

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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.

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The only wonder to me is that people who are not stone-blind to what is going on in this world can put such a question.

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I sprang at him; I had gone stone-blind with rage, and knew not what I did; the steel door crashed in my face; the locks rattled.

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

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"Let's have it, then; what is your evidence?" demanded Edenborough, in a fresh fit of stone-blind defiance.

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