Definitions
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- adjective temporarily blinded by exposure to light reflected from snow or ice
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Examples
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								"Not Sutherland of '92?" broke in the snow-blinded Minook man, groping feebly toward him. AT THE RAINBOW'S END 2010 
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								At least you're not one of the snow-blinded travelers of yore, who relied on volcanic-stone cairns to keep from getting lost. Take Monday Off: Iceland Dennis K. Berman 2011 
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								There was a hollow in it which my searching hands rather than my snow-blinded eyes discovered, and into that I pushed my way. Sorceress of the Witch World Norton, Andre 1968 
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								He worked without complaint in a smother of dust and cattle fumes at temperatures ranging as high as 136 degrees; or, snow-blinded and frozen, he "rode line" for hours on end when the thermometer was fifty or more below zero. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands Hermann Hagedorn 1923 
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								"Not Sutherland of '92?" broke in the snow-blinded Minook man, groping feebly toward him. At the Rainbow's End 1901 
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								"Not Sutherland of '92?" broke in the snow-blinded Minook man, groping feebly toward him. The God of His Fathers: Tales of the Klondyke Jack London 1896 
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								The talk of the other snow-blinded men, sitting about or stretched with their feet to the fire, was lost on his ear. Heroes of the Middle West The French Mary Hartwell Catherwood 1874 
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								Harris and his wife Mary provided sojourn in their New Memphis home for snow-blinded travelers on the way to Colorado Springs. 
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								It might feel nicely at home in Barcelona's Eixample district but with Colman's yellow walls paired with dark, dark wood, this Goodge Street newcomer comes across a bit screechy and chilly on a snow-blinded London lunchtime. Home 2010 
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								"You want to be careful," her husband cautioned her; "getting snow-blinded isn't as much fun as you'd think. The Land of Promise D. Torbett 
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