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Blindspot vs Blindsided - What's the difference?

blindspot | blindsided |

As a noun blindspot

is .

As a verb blindsided is

(blindside).

blindspot

English

Noun

(en noun)

    • blindsided

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (blindside)

    • blindside

    English

    Alternative forms

    * blind-side

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (automotive) A driver's field of blindness around an automobile; the side areas behind the driver.
  • (rugby) the space on the side of the pitch with the shorter distance between the breakdown/set piece and the touchline; compare openside.
  • (rugby union) short for blindside flanker, a position in rugby union, usually number .
    • ''The blindside [flanker] packs down at the scrum on the blindside.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=Septembe 24 , author=Ben Dirs , title=Rugby World Cup 2011: England 67-3 Romania , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=However, after an inside pass from Moody to Tom Croft and a surge from the England blind-side , number eight James Haskell was eventually pinged from in front of the posts for not releasing.}}

    Verb

  • (informal) To catch off guard; to take by surprise.

    • Quotations

    * (English Citations of "blindside")