Question

light:blinding:: _____

color:spectrum
sound:deafening
bright:shimmering
sight:blind
water:drowning

Answer 1

water:drowning

Answer 2

I think you could also make an argument for Sound: Deafening. I can see the reasoning behind water: drowning, in that when water overwhelms something it drowns that thing, just like too much light blinds. I think sound: deafening matches more closely because it relates to depriving of one of the senses, in this case, hearing, in the original, sight.