blindfold
adverb/ˈblaɪndfəʊld/
/ˈblaɪndfəʊld/
(British English) (also blindfolded British English, North American English)
- with the eyes covered
- The reporter was taken blindfold to a secret location.
- I knew the way home blindfold (= because it was so familiar).
- I could do that blindfold (= very easily, with no problems).
Word Originmid 16th cent.: alteration, by association with the verb fold, of blindfeld, past participle of obsolete blindfell ‘strike blind, blindfold’, from Old English geblindfellan (see blind and the verb fell).
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