(v. t.) To cover the eyes of, as with a bandage; to hinder from seeing.
(a.) Having the eyes covered; blinded; having the mental eye darkened. Hence: Heedless; reckless; as, blindfold zeal; blindfold fury.
Example Sentences:
(1) chocolatiers, I very much enjoy your chocolates but am forced to eat them blindfold because of your perverse decision to cast them into the shapes of seafood.
(2) Blindfolding the American hostages, Asgharzadeh later admitted, was their first mistake – it immediately turned an occupying campaign into what looked like deliberate kidnapping.
(3) Mohamed Bader, who was arrested on his return from Syria in 2014, told HRW he was punched, kicked, stripped naked and blindfolded and handcuffed throughout his questioning.
(4) He said he was then blindfolded and handcuffed and taken to the Camp Abu Naji, a British base north of Basra.
(5) "It is genuinely difficult to understand the motives of the pardons campaign," wrote Cathryn Corns and John Hughes-Wilson in their book, Blindfold and Alone , arguing that there should only be pardons for those who were suffering from shell shock when they left their posts, while other soldiers who "were demonstrably guilty" of desertion "deserved the full rigour of the law by the standards of their time".
(6) How Indonesia carries out the death penalty: rules of execution Read more In Indonesia, a prisoner has the choice of standing or sitting and whether to have their eyes covered by a blindfold or a hood.
(7) I have been kidnapped, blindfolded, driven around for hours, then dropped off home.
(8) With visual feedback, the tendency toward synchronization, such that both hands moved at the same angular velocity, was asymmetrically distributed, but under blindfolded conditions such asymmetries disappeared.
(9) Nearly half the assaults took place indoors, where victims were more likely to be bound and blindfolded, compared with one-third outdoors and one-sixth in vehicles.
(10) So we took the father, blindfolded him, cuffed his hands behind his back and put him in a military Jeep.” They dumped him like that at the entrance to the base.
(11) One group of 10 blindfolded subjects recalled criterion movement patterns that had been actively commanded and 10 subjects recalled passively induced movements.
(12) The performance time of 10 healthy blindfolded subjects to destroy a needle was compared with and without the aid.
(13) The difference in the development of these lesions was less pronounced when a blindfold comparison was made between the silicotic animals, exposed or unexposed to coal fly ash.
(14) He was held incommunicado and abused in Macedonian custody for 23 days, after which he was handcuffed, blindfolded, and driven to Skopje airport, where he was handed over to the CIA and severely beaten.
(15) The genius of The Great British Bake Off Read more Viewers have seen contestants throw pots blindfolded, and create objects ranging from bone china chandeliers to decorated tiles and bathroom sinks.
(16) In the first phase blindfolded subjects had to palpate objects in order to answer questions about the objects' distinct properties as fast as possible.
(17) Blindfolded subjects clasped the opposite surfaces of an object with the same frontal profile as the visual figure between thumb and forefinger and moved the latter together from end to end across the object.
(18) "Ask anyone who has been blindfolded, chained, taken out to be shot and shut up in solitary without anything but a concrete floor, and they'll tell you the same thing: it changes you."
(19) The scariest [fear] of all is not being silenced or sent to prison; it is the sense of powerlessness and uncertainty about what comes next … It's as if you are walking into a minefield blindfolded."
(20) The blindfold, shackles, threats and beatings were just the white noise of his ordeal, he says.
Covering
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cover
(n.) Anything which covers or conceals, as a roof, a screen, a wrapper, clothing, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) In a debate in the House of Commons, I will ask Britain, the US and other allies to convert generalised offers of help into more practical support with greater air cover, military surveillance and helicopter back-up, to hunt down the terrorists who abducted the girls.
(2) Photograph: Guardian The research also compiled data covered by a wider definition of tax haven, including onshore jurisdictions such as the US state of Delaware – accused by the Cayman islands of playing "faster and looser" even than offshore jurisdictions – and the Republic of Ireland, which has come under sustained pressure from other EU states to reform its own low-tax, light-tough, regulatory environment.
(3) The surface of all cells was covered by a fuzzy coat consisting of fine hairs or bristles.
(4) Five patients have been examined by defecography before and four after closure of a loop ileostomy performed to cover healing of the pouch and ileoanal anastomoses.
(5) A failure to reach a solution would potentially leave 200,000 homes without affordable cover, leaving owners unable to sell their properties and potentially exposing them to financial hardship.
(6) It was an artwork that fired the imaginations of 2 million visitors who played with, were provoked by and plunged themselves into the curious atmosphere of The Weather Project , with its swirling mist and gigantic mirrors that covered the hall's ceiling.
(7) But because current donor contributions are not sufficient to cover the thousands of schools in need of security, I will ask in the commons debate that the UK government allocates more.
(8) The degree of infection and incidence of different genera covering the same period were identical in both series.
(9) At first it looked as though the winger might have shown too much of the ball to the defence, yet he managed to gain a crucial last touch to nudge it past Phil Jones and into the path of Jerome, who slipped Chris Smalling’s attempt at a covering tackle and held off Michael Carrick’s challenge to place a shot past an exposed De Gea.
(10) The Sports Network broadcasts live NHL, Nascar, golf and horse racing – having also recently purchased the rights for Formula One – and will show 154 of the 196 games that NBC will cover.
(11) As to complications they recorded in one case mucosal bleeding after gastrofiberoptic polypectomy and in one case a covered perforation of the sigmoid at the site of colonoscopic polypectomy.
(12) The pressure is ramping up on Asda boss Andy Clarke, who next week will reveal the chain’s sales performance for the quarter covering Christmas.
(13) This week MediaGuardian 25, our survey of Britain's most important media companies, covering TV, radio, newspapers, magazines, music and digital, looks at BSkyB.
(14) When allegations of systemic doping and cover-ups first emerged in the runup to the 2013 Russian world athletics championships, an IOC spokesman insisted: “Anti-doping measures in Russia have improved significantly over the last five years with an effective, efficient and new laboratory and equipment in Moscow.” London Olympics were sabotaged by Russia’s doping, report says Read more We now know that the head of that lauded Moscow lab, Grigory Rodchenko, admitted to intentionally destroying 1,417 samples in December last year shortly before Wada officials visited.
(15) Chapman and the other "illegals" – sleeper agents without diplomatic cover – seem to have done little to harm American national security.
(16) This hydrostatic pressure may well be the driving force for creating channels for acid and pepsin to cross the mucus layer covering the mucosal surface.
(17) A retrospective study of autopsy-verified fatal pulmonary embolism at a department of infectious diseases was carried out, covering a four-year period (1980-83).
(18) Over the same period, breeding in drums dropped from 14%-25% to 4.7%, even though the drums were not treated or covered.
(19) The study covered 500 children from Warsaw's primary schools--250 children aged 6-8 years and 250 aged 13-15 years.
(20) The smaller interfaces cover about 700 A2 of the subunit surface.