Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to blindside
Participle: blindsided
Gerund: blindsiding
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | blindside |
| you | blindside |
| he;she;it | blindsides |
| we | blindside |
| you | blindside |
| they | blindside |
Perfect
| I | have blindsided |
| you | have blindsided |
| he;she;it | has blindsided |
| we | have blindsided |
| you | have blindsided |
| they | have blindsided |
Past
| I | blindsided |
| you | blindsided |
| he;she;it | blindsided |
| we | blindsided |
| you | blindsided |
| they | blindsided |
Pluperfect
| I | had blindsided |
| you | had blindsided |
| he;she;it | had blindsided |
| we | had blindsided |
| you | had blindsided |
| they | had blindsided |
Future
| I | will blindside |
| you | will blindside |
| he;she;it | will blindside |
| we | will blindside |
| you | will blindside |
| they | will blindside |
Future Perfect
| I | will have blindsided |
| you | will have blindsided |
| he;she;it | will have blindsided |
| we | will have blindsided |
| you | will have blindsided |
| they | will have blindsided |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | blindside |
| you | blindside |
| he;she;it | blindside |
| we | blindside |
| you | blindside |
| they | blindside |
Perfect
| I | have blindsided |
| you | have blindsided |
| he;she;it | have blindsided |
| we | have blindsided |
| you | have blindsided |
| they | have blindsided |
Imperfect
| I | blindsided |
| you | blindsided |
| he;she;it | blindsided |
| we | blindsided |
| you | blindsided |
| they | blindsided |
Pluperfect
| I | had blindsided |
| you | had blindsided |
| he;she;it | had blindsided |
| we | had blindsided |
| you | had blindsided |
| they | had blindsided |
Conditional
Present
| I | would blindside |
| you | would blindside |
| he;she;it | would blindside |
| we | would blindside |
| you | would blindside |
| they | would blindside |
Perfect
| I | would have blindsided |
| you | would have blindsided |
| he;she;it | would have blindsided |
| we | would have blindsided |
| you | would have blindsided |
| they | would have blindsided |
Imperative
| you | blindside |
| we | Let's blindside |
| you | blindside |
Verbs conjugated like 'blindside'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'blindside'
blandise,
broadside,
landslide,
roundside,
binarise,
binarize,
birdlime,
birdsit,
bisie,
blandify,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. English blind
3. Proto-Indo-European *seh₁-der.
4. Proto-Germanic *sīdaz
5. Proto-Germanic *sīdǭ
6. Old English sīde
7. Middle English side
8. English side
9. English blindside
10. From blind + side.
Sample Sentences
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The robbers crept out of the forest and blindsided the traveller.
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What isn't so gimmicky is the Aggro System, where you draw fire onto yourself by acting aggressive, while your partner sneaks off blindsiding distracted enemies. Aggro depends on how big your current weapon is and how often you act aggressive. [2008 April 26, GameAxis Unwired, page 54:]
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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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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. [2021 August 20, Daisuke Wakabayashi, “Who Gets the L.L.C.? Inside a Silicon Valley Billionaire’s Divorce.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:]
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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. [2022 March 11, David Hytner, “Chelsea are in crisis but there is no will to leave club on their knees”, in The Guardian:]
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The announcement blindsided employees, many of whom learned of the sudden ouster from an internal announcement and the company’s public facing blog. [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:]