blinding

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I do not think it is the batteries for the mouse that's the problem ... but the light under the mouse doesn't seem to be blinding, which is what it normally is when the mouse is working.

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  1. The act of making blind.
  2. A layer of sand and fine gravel laid over a road which has been recently paved, to fill the interstices between the stones.
  3. Making blind; depriving of sight or of understanding: as, a blinding storm of rain. Sorrow's eye glazed with blinding tears. Shak., Rich. II., ii. 2.

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  • The sidewalk blurred and then went blinding, and there were stars in it, and Fred and Eleanor, all in white, danced easily, elegantly through the milling crowd, and superimposed across them was Alis, watching them, her face lost and sorrowful. —  Futures Imperfect
  • The light was blinding, and the force of it knocked me back. —  BloodBrothers
  • The world about him was all water, metal-bright, blinding, and boundless. —  AdventureTales#1
  • First there was a blinding, an incredible, glare of light. —  163 - The Exploding Lake
  • A guttural ejaculation in Spanish told him that Flashlight beams--blinding funnels of white--jumped from the hands of the newcomers. —  011 - Brand of the Werewolf
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  1. Verbal noun of blind, v.
  2. Ppr. of blind, v.
 

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