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"related": [
{
"word": "effing and blinding"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"The act of causing blindness."
],
"links": [
[
"blindness",
"blindness"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"A thin coat of sand or gravel used to fill holes in a new road surface."
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"A thin sprinkling of sand or chippings laid on a newly tarred surface."
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈblaɪndɪŋ/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-aɪndɪŋ"
},
{
"audio": "En-au-blinding.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/e9/En-au-blinding.ogg/En-au-blinding.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e9/En-au-blinding.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "act of causing blindness",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "cegamento"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "act of causing blindness",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "cegamento"
}
],
"word": "blinding"
}
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