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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blindfold/#m1)

2) To blindfold someone is to put such a cloth over their eyes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blindfold/#m2)

3) Doing something blindfold means doing it without seeing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blindfold/#m3)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blindfold/#x1)
- We blindfolded Jack for pin the tail on the donkey. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blindfold/#x2)
- She can solve the puzzle blindfold. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blindfold/#x3)
- The blindfolded player tried to catch us. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blindfold/#x4)
- In the taste test, each child wore a blindfold. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blindfold/#x5)
- The kidnappers blindfolded the hero. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blindfold/#x6)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/27-dolphins-porpoises-and-seals/17/)
- [Stepping out there is like stepping out blindfolded.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/27-road-and-railway-safety/4/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «blindfold» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blindfold/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.