blindfold

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a strip of cloth or other covering placed over the eyes to prevent sight

   The guide removed the blindfold only after everyone had entered the room.

2. 2
   verb

   to cover someone's eyes so that they cannot see

   The game requires one player to blindfold another before hiding the object.

3. 3
   adv

   without seeing, knowing, or exercising careful judgment; blindly

   She refused to accept the stranger's claims blindfold.

From Middle English forms meaning "struck blind," originally built from blind + felled, the past participle of fell ("strike down"). The second element was later reshaped under the influence of the unrelated word fold, producing modern blindfold.

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