different between concealment vs blinding

English

Etymology

From Old French concelement (“concealment, secrecy”). Synchronically analyzable as conceal +? -ment.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?n?si?lm?nt/
• Hyphenation: con?ceal?ment

Noun

concealment (countable and uncountable, plural concealments)

1. The practice of keeping secrets.
2. The condition of being hidden or concealed.
3. (military) protection from observation or surveillance.

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English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bla?nd??/

Verb

blinding

1. present participle of blind

Adjective

blinding (comparative more blinding, superlative most blinding)

1. Very bright (as if to cause blindness).
2. Making blind or as if blind; depriving of sight or of understanding.

   • Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.

3. (Britain, slang) Brilliant; marvellous.

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Adverb

blinding (comparative more blinding, superlative most blinding)

1. (nonstandard) To an extreme degree; blindingly.

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Noun

blinding (plural blindings)

1. The act of causing blindness.
2. A thin coat of sand or gravel used to fill holes in a new road surface.
3. A thin sprinkling of sand or chippings laid on a newly tarred surface.

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