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Noun black out has 5 senses
- blackout - a suspension of radio or tv broadcasting
--1 is a kind of pause, intermission, break, interruption, suspension
- blackout, brownout, dimout - darkness resulting from the extinction of lights (as in a city invisible to enemy aircraft)
--2 is a kind of dark, darkness
- blackout - the failure of electric power for a general region
--3 is a kind of power outage, power failure
- blackout - a momentary loss of consciousness
--4 is a kind of unconsciousness
- amnesia, memory loss, blackout - partial or total loss of memory; "he has a total blackout for events of the evening"
--5 is a kind of cognitive state, state of mind
--5 has particulars:
Verb black out has 4 senses
- black out - obliterate or extinguish; "Some life-forms were obliterated by the radiation, others survived"
--1 is one way to snuff out, blow out, extinguish, quench
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- black out, blacken out - darken completely; "The dining room blackened out"
--2 is one way to darken
Sample sentence:
Something ----s
- black out - suppress by censorship as for political reasons; "parts of the newspaper article were blacked out"
--3 is one way to edit, redact
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- zonk out, pass out, black out - lose consciousness due to a sudden trauma, for example
--4 is one way to change state, turn
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s
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