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black out
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Verb black out has 4 senses
- black out(v = verb.weather) Array - obliterate or extinguish; "Some life-forms were obliterated by the radiation, others survived" is one way to blow out, extinguish, quench, snuff out
- black out(v = verb.change) blacken out - darken completely; "The dining room blackened out" is one way to darken
- black out(v = verb.change) Array - suppress by censorship as for political reasons; "parts of the newspaper article were blacked out" is one way to edit, redact
- black out(v = verb.body) pass out, zonk out - lose consciousness due to a sudden trauma, for example; Array is one way to change state, turn
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Derived forms noun blackout3, noun blackout2
Sample sentence:
Something ----s
Derived form noun blackout1
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
Derived form noun blackout4
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s
CIDE DICTIONARY
black out, v. i.
to experience a temporary loss of consciousness, memory, or vision. [PJC]
black out, v. t.
- to cause to become black, such as a stage, a computer screen, or a city. [PJC]
- to impose a blackout on (news or a sports event). [PJC]
- to make (a written text) illegible by applying a black ink over it; to blot out. [PJC]
- to suppress (a memory). [PJC]
THESAURUS
black out
annul, becloud, bedarken, bedim, begloom, black, blacken, block the light, blot out, brown, cancel, cast a shadow, censor, cloud, cloud over, crap out, darken, darken over, delete, dim, dim out, drop, eclipse, efface, encloud, encompass with shadow, expunge, faint, fall senseless, gloom, gray out, hugger-mugger, hush, hush up, hush-hush, keel over, kill, muffle, murk, obfuscate, obliterate, obnubilate, obscure, obumbrate, occult, occultate, overcast, overcloud, overshadow, pass out, quash, repress, shade, shadow, shush, sit on, smother, somber, squash, squelch, stifle, succumb, suppress, swoon, wipe out
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