blinding

Verb

• Present participle of blind

Adjective

• Very bright (as if to cause blindness).
• Making blind or as if blind; depriving of sight or of understanding.
• Brilliant; marvellous.

Adverb

• To an extreme degree; blindingly.

Noun

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