See blindside in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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],
"derived": [
{
"word": "blindsider"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "blind",
"3": "side"
},
"expansion": "blind + side",
"name": "compound"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From blind + side.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "blindsides",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "blindsiding",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "blindsided",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "blindsided",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
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"args": {},
"expansion": "blindside (third-person singular simple present blindsides, present participle blindsiding, simple past and past participle blindsided)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with usage examples",
"English transitive verbs"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "The robbers crept out of the forest and blindsided the traveller.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To attack (a person) on his or her blind side."
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To attack (a person) on his or her blind side."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English informal terms",
"English terms with quotations",
"English terms with usage examples",
"English transitive verbs"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "He had completed his plan to develop a new office building, but was blindsided by the sudden drop in real estate values.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"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": "quote"
},
{
"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": "quote"
},
{
"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": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To catch off guard; to take by surprise."
],
"links": [
[
"off guard",
"off guard"
],
[
"surprise",
"surprise"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive, figurative, informal) To catch off guard; to take by surprise."
],
"tags": [
"figuratively",
"informal",
"transitive"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"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"
}
],
"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": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "To attack (a person) on his or her blind side",
"word": "atacar por el lado ciego"
},
{
"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": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"note": "adjective references victim",
"sense": "catch off guard",
"word": "pillar desprevenido"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"note": "adverb references perpetrator",
"sense": "catch off guard",
"word": "cachar inadvertidamente"
},
{
"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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