blindfold

«blindfold» in Mova's school dictionary: a cloth tied over someone's eyes so they cannot see — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a blindfold, blindfolds); verb (blindfold, blindfolds, blindfolded, blindfolding); adjective/adverb (blindfold)

meaning for a pupil

1) A blindfold is a cloth tied over someone's eyes so they cannot see. tree →

2) To blindfold someone is to put such a cloth over their eyes. tree →

3) Doing something blindfold means doing it without seeing. tree →

sense in the lessons

In party games (pin the tail on the donkey, blind man's buff), science tasting tests (taste with a blindfold), trust games, and stories with kidnappers.

examples

• Put on the blindfold and guess the fruit. tree →
• We blindfolded Jack for pin the tail on the donkey. tree →
• She can solve the puzzle blindfold. tree →
• The blindfolded player tried to catch us. tree →
• In the taste test, each child wore a blindfold. tree →
• The kidnappers blindfolded the hero. tree →

note

Spelling: blind + fold, not «blindfolded» as the noun. Safety: never run while blindfolded; a partner should guide you.

In the corpora

• Seal whiskers are so sensitive that a blindfolded seal followed a fish's water trail that was more than 30 seconds old.
• Stepping out there is like stepping out blindfolded.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «blindfold» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.