black out
Definition of black out
transitive verb
1a : blot out, erase blacked out the event from his mindb : to suppress by censorship black out the news
2 : to envelop in darkness black out the stage
3 : to make inoperative (as by a power failure)
4 : to impose a blackout on blacked out the local game
intransitive verb
1 : to become enveloped in darkness
2 : to undergo a temporary loss of vision, consciousness, or memory
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Examples of black out in a Sentence
had spent most of her adulthood trying to black out memories of a wretched childhood
with the delivery of the knockout punch, the screen blacks out, and in the next scene the boxer wakes up in the hospital
1824
First Known Use of black out
1824
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