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n. - Temporary inability to see caused by exposure to sunlight reflected from ice.

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  • Blog Guelph: Snow-blindness snowblindness, originally uploaded by downtownlynn.
  • Leg irons, jackal-type watch dogs, snowblindness, dark mines and quarries, a snowy wasteland dotted with mummified corpses, despair, and ultimately a painful death.
  • By this time my eyes, which had been inflamed by the strong glare of the sun, began to feel as if they were full of sand, and presently I became aware that I was afflicted with...
  • The mighty jungle ... 'the greenery seems to crowd in on you with a sensation that has been described as akin to snowblindness'.
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