as in daze
a temporary state of unconsciousness
even though you experienced only a brief blackout, you still ought to be checked by a doctor
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as in to eradicate
to destroy all traces of
had spent most of her adulthood trying to black out memories of a wretched childhood
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as in to darken
to grow dark
with the delivery of the knockout punch, the screen blacks out, and in the next scene the boxer wakes up in the hospital
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as in to faint
to lose consciousness
blacked out after hitting her head on the beam
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Recent Examples of blackout
J.d. Capelouto,
semafor.com,
28 June 2026
Add depth to your window treatments by layering a pair of sheers underneath your blackouts.
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Kate McGregor,
Architectural Digest,
27 June 2026
Issy Ronald,
CNN Money,
4 June 2026
But sometimes even blacking out after long night shoots?
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Jordan Moreau,
Variety,
3 June 2026
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But some experts argue mass AC would strain energy grids, threatening blackouts, and would carry environmental costs.
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J.d. Capelouto,
semafor.com,
28 June 2026
Add depth to your window treatments by layering a pair of sheers underneath your blackouts.
—
Kate McGregor,
Architectural Digest,
27 June 2026
Verb
But sometimes even blacking out after long night shoots?
—
Issy Ronald,
CNN Money,
4 June 2026
But sometimes even blacking out after long night shoots?
—
Jordan Moreau,
Variety,
3 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for blackout
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Hospital staff lined up to sing and dance, celebrating their good fortune, as the pair looked on in a daze.
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Summer Satur-daze Summer Music Series.
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Incomplete or inappropriate antibiotic courses amplify this effect by exposing bacteria to sub-therapeutic drug concentrations without eradicating them.
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Building new sterile fly production facilities in the Southwest helped eradicate the flies in that region too, and by 1966, the US was declared officially screwworm-free.
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Auto-correct tools generally brighten photos, but this one also knows when an image needs darkening.
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Its most dramatic attack occurred last week, when hundreds of drones overwhelmed Moscow’s air defenses and hit refineries and storage tanks, sending up black plumes of smoke that darkened the sky.
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Rod Stewart is recovering after nearly fainting onstage over the weekend.
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In July 2023, Kelly fainted while out for dinner with friends in Los Angeles and was taken to the hospital, where doctors found blood clots around her lungs and legs.
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Welcome to a Monday Nightcaps — the one where UFC ring girl Chrissy Blair put America in a trance to celebrate the big 2-5-0.
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Scary Movie included joking references to both the creepy Aunt Gladys character, as well as the famous scene of all the kids running off in the middle of the night — except the kids in Scary Movie are running from accidental weed candies at Halloween instead of a trance.
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By the time the boundary issues were partially corrected in the 1960s, both the cemetery and the surrounding Black community had been largely erased from public memory.
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Still, state environmental officials and weather experts say the rainfall deficits dating back to last fall have not been completely erased.
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With minimal humidity, near-perfect clear-sky frequency and vast empty horizons, Namibia offers the kind of slow, immersive darkness that makes dusking feel less like a trend and more like a return to something ancient.
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Its hours are from dawn to dusk every day of the year.
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The company also flags baseline cardiac disease, abnormal ECG, arrhythmia, prior cervical vagotomy, abnormal cervical anatomy, brain tumor or aneurysm history, head trauma, syncope, seizures and nickel allergy as unevaluated risks.
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Vasovagal syncope is defined by the British National Health Service as a common type of fainting caused by a sudden drop in blood pressure and heart rate.
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“Blackout.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blackout. Accessed 1 Jul. 2026.
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