snow-blindadj.
Having the eyes or sight affected by exposure to the glare of snow. Also figurative.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > disordered vision > [adjective] > blind > snow-blind
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1748 H. Ellis Voy. Hudson's-Bay 189 [Indians] frequently become Snow-blind in the Spring of the Year.
1865 Times 5 Feb. When the day at length dawned there was a thick fog, and I was rapidly becoming snow-blind.
1896 Harper's Mag. Apr. 728/2 Every man in the party but myself was more or less severely snow-blind.
1946 D. Thomas Deaths & Entrances 26 It is a winter's tale That the snow blind twilight ferries over the lakes.
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snow-blinded adj.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > disordered vision > [adjective] > blind > snow-blind
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1845 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 2) 230 As tired wanderer, snow-blinded, sinks And swoons upon the swelling drift.
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