"blindside" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈblaɪndˌsaɪd/ Audio: en-us-blindside.ogg [US] Forms: blindsides [plural]
Etymology: blind + side Etymology templates: {{compound|en|blind|side}} blind + side Head templates: {{en-noun}} blindside (plural blindsides)
  1. (automotive) A driver's field of blindness around an automobile; the side areas behind the driver. Categories (topical): Automotive Synonyms: blind spot
    Sense id: en-blindside-en-noun-BIpR9T-9 Topics: automotive, transport, vehicles
  2. (rail transport) A tram/train driver's field of blindness around a tram (trolley/streetcar) or a train; the side areas behind the tram/train driver. Categories (topical): Rail transportation Synonyms: blind spot
    Sense id: en-blindside-en-noun-hp8kv8O0 Topics: rail-transport, railways, transport
  3. (figurative) A person's weak point. Tags: figuratively
    Sense id: en-blindside-en-noun-pF-Ogp66
  4. (rugby) The space on the side of the pitch with the shorter distance between the breakdown/set piece and the touchline; compare openside. Categories (topical): Rugby
    Sense id: en-blindside-en-noun-rh7v4Euf Topics: ball-games, games, hobbies, lifestyle, rugby, sports
  5. (rugby union) The blindside flanker, a position in rugby union, usually number 6. Categories (topical): Rugby union
    Sense id: en-blindside-en-noun-EeVR8VlE Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 8 10 2 14 39 3 24 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 7 9 2 13 49 3 17
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: blind side, blind-side Translations (motor vehicle/train/tram driver's field of blindness): slepý úhel (Czech), kuollut kulma (Finnish), angle mort [masculine] (French), angolo morto [masculine] (Italian), dødvinkel [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), punto ciego [masculine] (Spanish)
Disambiguation of "motor vehicle/train/tram driver's field of blindness": 26 37 2 5 30

Verb

IPA: /ˈblaɪndˌsaɪd/ Audio: en-us-blindside.ogg [US] Forms: blindsides [present, singular, third-person], blindsiding [participle, present], blindsided [participle, past], blindsided [past]
Etymology: blind + side Etymology templates: {{compound|en|blind|side}} blind + side Head templates: {{en-verb}} blindside (third-person singular simple present blindsides, present participle blindsiding, simple past and past participle blindsided)
  1. (transitive) To attack (a person) on his or her blind side. Tags: transitive Translations (To attack (a person) on his or her blind side): überraschend angreifen (German), unerwartet herfallen über (German), aus heiterem Himmel überfallen (German), уда́рить исподтишка (udáritʹ ispodtiška) (Russian)
    Sense id: en-blindside-en-verb-g7Cp8vIa Disambiguation of 'To attack (a person) on his or her blind side': 100 0
  2. (transitive, figurative, informal) To catch off guard; to take by surprise. Tags: figuratively, informal, transitive Translations (catch off guard): prendre par surprise (French), überrumpeln (German), überraschen (German), kalt erwischen (German), ta på sengen (Norwegian Bokmål), overrumple (Norwegian Bokmål), ta på senga (Norwegian Nynorsk), overrumple (Norwegian Nynorsk), zaskoczyć [perfective] (Polish), zaskakiwać [imperfective] (Polish), застать врасплох (zastatʹ vrasplox) (Russian), sorprender (Spanish), tomar por sorpresa (Spanish), desconcertar (Spanish), coger por sorpresa (Spanish), ta på sängen (Swedish), överrumpla (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-blindside-en-verb-HKGH65YE Disambiguation of 'catch off guard': 0 100
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: blind side, blind-side

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        {
          "text": "The blindside packs down at the scrum on the blindside."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011 September 24, Ben Dirs, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 67-3 Romania”, in BBC Sport",
          "text": "However, after an inside pass from Moody to Tom Croft and a surge from the England blind-side, number eight James Haskell was eventually pinged from in front of the posts for not releasing.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "The blindside flanker, a position in rugby union, usually number 6."
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        "(rugby union) The blindside flanker, a position in rugby union, usually number 6."
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈblaɪndˌsaɪd/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-blindside.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/f2/En-us-blindside.ogg/En-us-blindside.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f2/En-us-blindside.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
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    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "blind side"
    },
    {
      "word": "blind-side"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "motor vehicle/train/tram driver's field of blindness",
      "word": "slepý úhel"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "motor vehicle/train/tram driver's field of blindness",
      "word": "kuollut kulma"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "motor vehicle/train/tram driver's field of blindness",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "angle mort"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "motor vehicle/train/tram driver's field of blindness",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "angolo morto"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "motor vehicle/train/tram driver's field of blindness",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "dødvinkel"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "motor vehicle/train/tram driver's field of blindness",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "punto ciego"
    }
  ],
  "word": "blindside"
}

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      "form": "blindsides",
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        "participle",
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        {
          "text": "The robbers crept out of the forest and blindsided the traveller.",
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        "To attack (a person) on his or her blind side."
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        "(transitive) To attack (a person) on his or her blind side."
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        "transitive"
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        "English terms with usage examples",
        "English transitive verbs"
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        {
          "text": "He had completed his plan to develop a new office building, but was blindsided by the sudden drop in real estate values.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2021 August 20, Daisuke Wakabayashi, “Who Gets the L.L.C.? Inside a Silicon Valley Billionaire’s Divorce.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN",
          "text": "Mr. Hassan offered Ms. Huynh $20 million in Google stock — less than 10 percent of his shares — and half of three Bay Area real estate properties: houses in Palo Alto and San Francisco, and a commercial building in Menlo Park. She felt blindsided and hurt. She refused.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022 March 11, David Hytner, “Chelsea are in crisis but there is no will to leave club on their knees”, in The Guardian",
          "text": "But when they did arrive at 9am on Thursday, they were still able to blindside the Chelsea hierarchy. On Wednesday, they had certainly not anticipated the imposition of them the following morning.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2023 November 18, Blake Montgomery, Dani Anguiano, “OpenAI fires co-founder and CEO Sam Altman for allegedly lying to company board”, in The Guardian, →ISSN",
          "text": "The announcement blindsided employees, many of whom learned of the sudden ouster from an internal announcement and the company’s public facing blog.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To catch off guard; to take by surprise."
      ],
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        "(transitive, figurative, informal) To catch off guard; to take by surprise."
      ],
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        "transitive"
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  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈblaɪndˌsaɪd/"
    },
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      "audio": "en-us-blindside.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/f2/En-us-blindside.ogg/En-us-blindside.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f2/En-us-blindside.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
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    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "blind side"
    },
    {
      "word": "blind-side"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "To attack (a person) on his or her blind side",
      "word": "überraschend angreifen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "To attack (a person) on his or her blind side",
      "word": "unerwartet herfallen über"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "To attack (a person) on his or her blind side",
      "word": "aus heiterem Himmel überfallen"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "udáritʹ ispodtiška",
      "sense": "To attack (a person) on his or her blind side",
      "word": "уда́рить исподтишка"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "catch off guard",
      "word": "prendre par surprise"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "catch off guard",
      "word": "überrumpeln"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "catch off guard",
      "word": "überraschen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "catch off guard",
      "word": "kalt erwischen"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "catch off guard",
      "word": "ta på sengen"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "catch off guard",
      "word": "overrumple"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "catch off guard",
      "word": "ta på senga"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "catch off guard",
      "word": "overrumple"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "catch off guard",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "zaskoczyć"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "catch off guard",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "zaskakiwać"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "zastatʹ vrasplox",
      "sense": "catch off guard",
      "word": "застать врасплох"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "catch off guard",
      "word": "sorprender"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "catch off guard",
      "word": "tomar por sorpresa"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "catch off guard",
      "word": "desconcertar"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "catch off guard",
      "word": "coger por sorpresa"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "catch off guard",
      "word": "ta på sängen"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "catch off guard",
      "word": "överrumpla"
    }
  ],
  "word": "blindside"
}

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