Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Affected with night blindness.
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- adjective medicine unable to see clearly in low light; suffering from
night blindness .
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Examples
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It was someone shooting off professional grade fireworks in a residential district, scaring the night-blind birds out of their roost into a 25-mph flight that ran them into houses, signs and even the ground, says Karen Rowe, Arkansas Game and Fish Commission ornithologist.
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In addition, past fireworks displays have been implicated in massive bird kills, when night-blind birds are uprooted from their roosts and crash into themselves and everything else in sight.
Washington D.C. weather in the year 2076, part II Don Lipman 2011
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It was someone shooting off professional grade fireworks in a residential district, scaring the night-blind birds out of their roost into a 25-mph flight that ran them into houses, signs and even the ground, says Karen Rowe, Arkansas Game and Fish Commission ornithologist.
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I've cancelled my usual walk to the pub to see Hogmanay in: the council's run out of salt and grit, the pavements are icy, I'm night-blind in one eye and a knee's acting up, and there'd be two hills to climb.
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What's more, they took the embassy's night-vision goggles and other equipment with them, sources confirm, leaving the embassy largely night-blind for several days.
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Rissa had said the humans were night-blind, but still I was glad for the cover that the grass and prickly bushes gave us.
Promise of the Wolves Dorothy Hearst 2008
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Rissa had said the humans were night-blind, but still I was glad for the cover that the grass and prickly bushes gave us.
Promise of the Wolves Dorothy Hearst 2008
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Rissa had said the humans were night-blind, but still I was glad for the cover that the grass and prickly bushes gave us.
Promise of the Wolves Dorothy Hearst 2008
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We had to stay the night in a hotel because they wanted to stay late, and I'm night-blind.
Archive 2008-07-01 Sage 2008
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We had to stay the night in a hotel because they wanted to stay late, and I'm night-blind.
In-Put Mode Sage 2008
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