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Blinding vs Shining - What's the difference?

blinding | shining |

As verbs the difference between blinding and shining

is that blinding is while shining is .

As adjectives the difference between blinding and shining

is that blinding is very bright (as if to cause blindness) while shining is emitting light.

As nouns the difference between blinding and shining

is that blinding is the act of causing blindness while shining is a bright emission of light; a gleam.

As an adverb blinding

is (neologism) 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.

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    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Emitting light.
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    • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage='Twas early June, the new grass was flourishing everywheres, the posies in the yard—peonies and such—in full bloom, the sun was shining , and the water of the bay was blue, with light green streaks where the shoal showed.}}
  • Reflecting light.
  • Having a high polish or sheen.
  • Having exceptional merit.

    • Verb

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    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A bright emission of light; a gleam.