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Blinding vs Blending - What's the difference?

blinding | blending |

As verbs the difference between blinding and blending

is that blinding is present participle of lang=en while blending is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between blinding and blending

is that blinding is the act of causing blindness while blending is the act or result of something being blended.

As an adjective blinding

is very bright (as if to cause blindness).

As an adverb blinding

is to an extreme degree; blindingly.

blinding

English

Verb

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    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Very bright (as if to cause blindness).
  • Making blind or as if blind; depriving of sight or of understanding.
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  • *: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.
  • Brilliant; marvellous.
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    • Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • (neologism) To an extreme degree; blindingly.
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  • * {{quote-news, title=US Note Yields Near 4-Month High Before Durable Goods Report
    • , work=Bloomberg, date=May 24, year=2007, passage=Roger Yates, chief executive officer of Henderson Group Plc in London, which oversees about $125 billion said Greenspan's remarks were "blinding obvious".}}

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of causing blindness.
  • A thin coat of sand or gravel used to fill holes in a new road surface.
  • A thin sprinkling of sand or chippings laid on a newly tarred surface.

    • blending

    English

    (wikipedia blending)

    Verb

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  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= William E. Conner
    • , title= An Acoustic Arms Race , volume=101, issue=3, page=206-7, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close (less than half a meter) above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them.}}

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act or result of something being blended.
    • blendings of old and new