blinding

1. To make temporarily or permanently blind.

   Don't wave that pencil in my face - do you want to blind me?

2. To curse.
3. To darken; to obscure to the eye or understanding; to conceal.
4. To cover with a thin coating of sand and fine gravel, for example a road newly paved, in order that the joints between the stones may be filled.

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.

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

   blinding tears;  blinding snow

3. Brilliant; marvellous.

   "How's it going?"  "Blinding, mate."

adverb

To an extreme degree; blindingly.