Aveuglé

Aveuglé is the past participle of the French verb aveugler, meaning to blind. As an adjective, it denotes someone who has been deprived of sight, either through a physical cause or, more commonly in figurative use, through perception hindered by emotion, bias, or misinformation. It agrees with the gender and number of the noun it modifies: masculine singular aveuglé, feminine singular aveuglée, masculine plural aveuglés, feminine plural aveuglées. It can also appear in compound tenses with être to describe a state: il est aveuglé, elle est aveuglée.

As a transitive verb, aveugler means to blind someone physically or to render someone unable to see. The corresponding passive or passive-like form is used in expressions such as il a été aveuglé, ils l'ont aveuglé. In figurative usage, aveuglé is widely used with prepositions such as par: aveuglé par la passion, aveuglé par la haine, aveuglé par l’ambition, indicating that perception or judgment is clouded by a strong influence.

The related noun aveuglement refers to the state of blindness, whether literal or figurative, and the noun form of the verb is commonly used in discussions of perception, cognition, and bias. In English, aveuglé is typically translated as blinded or blinded by, depending on context. The term is frequently found in literary, philosophical, and everyday French to describe both physical impairment and metaphorical obstruction of sight.