blinding

Meanings

1. present participle and gerund of blind

1. Very bright (as if to cause blindness).
2. Making blind or as if blind; depriving of sight or of understanding.
3. Brilliant; marvellous.

1. To an extreme degree; blindingly.

1. The act of causing blindness.
2. A thin coat of sand or gravel used to fill holes in a new road surface.
3. A thin sprinkling of sand or chippings laid on a newly tarred surface.

Etymology

By surface analysis, blind + -ing.