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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 pur·blind /ˈpɝˌblaɪnd/
 (a.)半盲的,惺松眼的,愚鈍的(vt.)使成半瞎

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Pur·blind a.
 1. Wholly blind. Purblind Argus, all eyes and no sight.”
 2. Nearsighted, or dim-sighted; seeing obscurely; as, a purblind eye; a purblind mole.
    The saints have not so sharp eyes to see down from heaven; they be purblindand sand-blind.   --Latimer.
    O purblind race of miserable men.   --Tennyson.
 -- Pur*blind*ly, adv. -- Pur*blind*ness, n.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 purblind
      adj 1: having greatly reduced vision [syn: dim-sighted, near-blind,
              sand-blind, visually impaired, visually
             challenged]
      2: lacking in insight or discernment; "too obtuse to grasp the
         implications of his behavior"; "a purblind oligarchy that
         flatly refused to see that history was condemning it to
         the dustbin"- Jasper Griffin [syn: obtuse]