Definition & Meaning | English word BLINDFOLD

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Definitions of BLINDFOLD

1. A covering, usually a bandage, for the eyes, blocking light to the eyes.
2. Having the eyes covered so as to obscure vision
3. Thoughtless; reckless.
4. With the eyes covered so as to obscure vision.
5. To cover the eyes, in order to make someone unable to see.
6. To obscure understanding or comprehension.
7. (sometimes, figurative) Anything that obscures the vision.

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Examples of Using BLINDFOLD in a Sentence

• Philidor wrote an extremely successful chess book (Analyse du jeu des Échecs) and gave public demonstrations of his blindfold chess skills.
• Right: Justice, wearing a blindfold (representing impartiality) and holding scales (representing fairness) and the sword of justice.
• Shepherd took the place of Sam Codys wife during his London show, wearing a blindfold, having Cody shoot, from her head, a plaster egg.
• In November 1861, Louis Paulsen gave a simultaneous blindfold exhibition in Manchester, beating Blackburne among others; Blackburne was soon thereafter playing chess blindfolded with three players simultaneously.
• Use of a blindfold is said to enhance the remaining senses of the wearer, focusing attention on sound, smells and physical contact.
• Despite all claims regarding the death of Thomas Scott, many observers and testimonies differ in the conditions that Scott had died - details such as whether or not he wore a blindfold, if Riel was present during the execution, and if Scott had actually survived first being shot.
• Popular features of DownBeat magazine include its "Reviews" section where jazz critics, using a '1-Star to 5-Star' maximum rating system, rate the latest musical recordings, vintage recordings, and books; articles on individual musicians and music forms; and its famous "Blindfold Test" column, in which a musician listens to records by other artists, tries to guess who they are, and rates them using the 5-star maximum rating system.
• On 18 December 2004, in the Dutch village of Lutten, Sijbrands improved the world record for blindfold simultaneous draughts.
• Her books include The Blindfold (1992), The Enchantment of Lily Dahl (1996), What I Loved (2003), for which she is best known, A Plea for Eros (2006), The Sorrows of an American (2008), The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves (2010), The Summer Without Men (2011), Living, Thinking, Looking (2012), The Blazing World (2014), and Memories of the Future (2019).
• The ribbon's function has been the subject of much debate by art historians; suggestions include an allusion to the fetters used by Cupid to bind lovers, that it was used to hang the mirror, and that it was used to blindfold Venus moments before.
• The items include a strong hemp rope, a thermos for the tea, cups, sugar, a blindfold, pills to drug the tea, and a scalpel.
• Additionally, a puppet quizzes them about opening strategy and they play blindfold games, odds games, and a game involving memorising the pieces in a sample game.
• Gwynn, alongside Anole, Loa, Wolf Cub, Rockslide, and Match, are told a frightening ghost story by fellow student Blindfold one night at the school.
• After examining her, Exodus states that Blindfold is dead and she is no longer a priority to them and they continue on to look for Destiny's Diaries in the mansion, but in spite of this she does not 'smell dead' to X-23, and Prodigy theorizes that Blindfold's precognitive abilities forewarned her of Exodus' coming and so she used Elixir's powers to put herself in a deathlike sleep.
• Slant Magazines Jonathan Keefe named it one of the best singles of 2006, humorously writing that Kelis and Nas singing about erotic asphyxiation and mummification would be enjoyable if those lyrics were coupled with a beat as good as "Blindfold Me".
• Released outside US (where "Blindfold Me" served as the second single), the single features Cee-Lo, who was at the time half of the duo Gnarls Barkley.
• What happens to her from then is unknown, however there is a short split-second shot of her hand limply dropping the blindfold she was holding.
• The scene and the discipline of her pose do more to suggest that she has placed the blindfold on herself, as is done in many cultures, ritualistically, to encourage reliance on the other senses (for example the use of blindfolds in martial arts).
• In their defense, they wrote that, if the North, and the nation, embarked upon this Compromise—and ignored what experiences proved, namely that southern slaveholders were determined to dominate the nation through ironclad unity and perpetual pressure to demand more land, and more slaves—then these five Mainers declared Americans "shall deserve to be considered a besotted and stupid race, fit, only, to be led blindfold; and worthy, only, to be treated with sovereign contempt".
• A large allegorical statue representing Lady Justice or Astraea wearing a blindfold and holding weighing scales stands at the staircase which lead to the former courtrooms.
• In one volume of Lumberjanes, the Gorgons are depicted as approachable women who blindfold themselves with their snakes to avoid accidentally petrifying mortals who want to speak with them.
• However, in February 2008, after determining that he had cheated in blindfolded events by peeking at the cube, the World Cube Association revoked all of his blindfold records and banned him for three years from WCA competitions.
• Manila Man -- A street-tough brawler, given mystical items notably a barong tagalog that grants a certain degree of invulnerability and a blindfold that allows him to see the aura of living creatures.
• Nicholas Tan of Game Revolution called each minigame "low-production, tinny-sounding and uninspiring" and gave them scores ranging from C to F, except for Tooth Decay/Halitosis of Horrors, which received a F- and commented "You're better off putting on a blindfold, walking into a rack of DS titles, and picking the game that your face lands on".
• Khonsari's subsequent titles, also lauded as innovative breakthroughs that reframe the human experience, including HERO (site-specific multi-sensory VR experience of civilian warfare in Syria) premiered at Sundance and Tribeca Film Festival winning the Storyscape Award for Best Immersive, Blindfold premiering at Sheffield, Fire Escape Tribeca Film Festival––and currently Who is Michael Sterling? with Columbia and Standford.

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