• IPA: /ˈblaɪndɪŋ/

1. present participle of blind#English|blind

blinding

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

   blinding tears;  blinding snow

   • 1914, Louis Joseph Vance, chapter III, in Nobody, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, published 1915, OCLC 40817384 ↗:

     Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.

3. (UK, slang) Brilliant; marvellous.

   "How's it going?"  "Blinding, mate."

• Portuguese: cegante, ofuscante
• Russian: ослепля́ющий
• Spanish: cegador

blinding

1. (nonstandard) To an extreme degree; blindingly.

blinding (plural blindings)

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.

• Portuguese: cegamento