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English
Etymology
References sandblind ("partially blind", alteration of samblind), and stone dead ("unquestionably dead").
Adjective
stone-blind (not comparable)
- Completely blind.
1915, William Campbell, Sketches from Formosa, Marshall Brothers Limited, page 82:While recently addressing a large open-air audience in the district city itself, a man came forward and warmly invited me to dine with him. On inquiry, it turned out that he had formerly been stone-blind, but had been completely restored to sight by a simple operation at the hospital. Now, here was a man who would speak well of us, at all hazard ; and who, as a matter of fact, came home to his friends to tell them how great things the Lord had done for him.
1942 October 3, John Ware, “Nomenclature of Night Blindness”, in British Medical Journal, volume 2, number 4265, →PMID, page 409:A deaf man may be anything from hard of hearing to as deaf as a post; a blind man may be as blind as a bat or an owl; he may be gravel-blind or stone-blind; a bald man as bald as a coot or as a billiard ball.
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