(verb) : ex-caeco, āvi, ātum, 1
* To blind, make blind (rare).
* Lit.: num ergo is excaecat nos aut orbat sensibus? etc., * Cic. Ac. 2, 23, 74; Plin. 20, 18, 76, § 200; Flor. 2, 20, 5.
* Transf.
* Trop.: oculos animosque (fama),Petr. 141, 5: formam,i. e. to render uncomely, to disfigure,id. 128, 3: nec accipies munera quae excaecant prudentes,Vulg. Exod. 23, 8.
* To stop up a river, a channel, etc., Ov. M. 15, 272; id. Pont. 4, 2, 17; Cels. 7, 7 fin.—*
* To darken or dull a bright color: fulgor (argenti) excaecatus,Plin. 33, 9, 46, § 131.

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