blindfolded
part of speech
adjective (blindfolded); verb (past form of blindfold: blindfolded)
meaning for a pupil
1) Blindfolded means with a cloth or band over your eyes so you cannot see. tree →
2) Blindfolded is the past form of «blindfold»: to cover someone's eyes like this. tree →
sense in the lessons
In games and parties children play blindfolded: pin the tail on the donkey, blind man's buff, trust games. In science, taste and touch tests are done blindfolded to make the test fair. In stories prisoners or players are blindfolded. Phrase: «I could do it blindfolded» means it is very easy for me.
examples
- Blindfolded, she tried to pin the tail on the donkey. tree →
- We tasted the crisps blindfolded to guess the flavour. tree →
- He guided his blindfolded friend through the obstacles. tree →
- I know this path so well I could walk it blindfolded. tree →
- The players were blindfolded and spun around. tree →
- Only play blindfolded games where it is safe and someone is watching. tree →
- On the Piazza dell Trinita stands a slender pillar, and upon it is the goddess of Justice, blindfolded, with her scales in her hand. tree →
note
Regular verb: blindfold, blindfolded. A blindfold (noun) is the cloth itself. Blindfolded is not the same as blind: a blindfolded person can see again when the cloth comes off.
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 «blindfolded» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.