go blind

idiom

: to become unable to see
She went blind at age 67.

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Of patients with severe forms, half will go blind in five years. IEEE Spectrum, 3 Aug. 2017 Cats may exhibit respiratory symptoms, such as difficulty breathing, and in some cases can go blind as a consequence of bird flu. David Faris, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024 If the vision subsystem has a hard time perceiving what’s in front of it in direct sunlight, then the robots may suddenly go blind and stop working if a ray of sun comes through a window. Hans Peter Brondmo, WIRED, 10 Sep. 2024 Up to 500,000 children go blind every year from Vitamin A deficiency, and a third of them die soon after. Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 31 Jan. 2013 Allegedly, they were all told to wear special welding goggles, so as not to go blind from the pepper’s intense hot glow. Eric Farwell, The New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2022 Retinitis pigmentosa causes these cells to degenerate, and patients with this condition lose peripheral and night vision and eventually go blind. Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 19 Feb. 2016 The eye condition caused the husky to go blind. Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 4 Mar. 2022 And in the Little House on the Prairie books, we're told scarlet fever is what makes Laura's older sister, Mary, go blind. Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 25 Mar. 2014

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“Go blind.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/go%20blind. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.

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