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
Katherine J Igoe, InStyle, 5 Apr. 2026
Iran’s internet blackout now amounts to the longest nationwide internet shutdown on record in any country, internet watchdog NetBlocks has said.
—Billy Stockwell, CNN Money, 5 Apr. 2026
Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 25 Mar. 2026
Make sure to remove or black out any labels with your personal information before throwing away the packaging.
—Cody Godwin, USA Today, 24 Mar. 2026
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Noun
This event was part of the #MeToo blackout awards season, in which attendees wore black in support of the movement—but the British Royal family is never supposed to make a political statement of any kind.
—Katherine J Igoe, InStyle, 5 Apr. 2026
Iran’s internet blackout now amounts to the longest nationwide internet shutdown on record in any country, internet watchdog NetBlocks has said.
—Billy Stockwell, CNN Money, 5 Apr. 2026
Verb
Tonight, the teams’ local markets, including the YES Network cable station in New York City, will be blacked out from their own game.
—Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 25 Mar. 2026
Make sure to remove or black out any labels with your personal information before throwing away the packaging.
—Cody Godwin, USA Today, 24 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for blackout
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In the band’s heyday, Anthony Kiedis, with his bare torso and long girlish copper-blond hair, looked like a ’70s teen idol who’d become a Warhol hustler – a street-flesh god like Joe Dallesandro, except that where Dallesandro was in a daze, Kiedis was a live wire.—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
13 Mar. 2026
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And there’s still almost an hour of film left to go, in which everyone, including the audience, is in a sort of hallucinatory, post traumatic daze — but even the relative comfort of that won’t last long.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
18 Feb. 2026
Verb
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His statement threatening to eradicate an entire civilization shocks the conscience and requires a decisive congressional response.—
Eric McDaniel,
NPR,
7 Apr. 2026
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Our hope is that, over time, this app will help eradicate bad brushing habits to improve our overall dental health.—
BestReviews,
Mercury News,
6 Apr. 2026
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The film has also helped resuscitate a dwindling population of ticket-goers hoping for a feel-good escape-hatch picture in the midst of darkening times and popcorn machines.—
Benjamin Svetkey,
HollywoodReporter,
8 Apr. 2026
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The image below shows the SLS freeing itself of Earth, hauling the Artemis 2 mission to the darkening skies above Florida.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
2 Apr. 2026
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If a person faints, as Cantrell did, that's a sign the disease is advanced, Russo said.—
Kerry Breen,
CBS News,
4 Apr. 2026
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At his recent show in London, sombr paused the program to call out event staff after a fan appeared to faint in the audience without receiving help.—
Hannah Dailey,
Billboard,
11 Mar. 2026
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In that film, unassuming victims are put into a hypnotic trance by a psychic killer to then do his murdering for him, only for that violence to become even more contagious.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
25 Mar. 2026
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Then, the repetitive descending melody is interrupted and restarts; in this musical rupture the trance is broken.—
Holden Seidlitz,
New Yorker,
20 Mar. 2026
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After Jake Cronenworth walked to start the sixth and was erased on Ramón Laureano’s fielder’s choice grounder, Tatis grounded a single through the left side to give the Padres runners at first and second.—
Kevin Acee,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
8 Apr. 2026
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Those charges were ultimately dropped and were supposed to be erased from public disclosure, the lawsuit said.—
Justin Muszynski,
Hartford Courant,
8 Apr. 2026
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The park is open from daylight to dusk for visitors and 24/7 for campers.—
Isa Almeida,
Oklahoman,
15 Jan. 2026
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Its hours are from dawn to dusk every day of the year.—
Cathy Kozlowicz,
jsonline.com,
21 Oct. 2025
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Too much laughter may cause laugh syncope, a rare condition characterized by a transient loss of consciousness and postural tone due to inadequate blood flow to the brain.—
Scott Lafee,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
3 Mar. 2026
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In some cases, if the blood pressure is too low, fainting (syncope) may occur.4 Fainting is a transient loss of consciousness caused by a decrease in oxygen and nutrients reaching the brain.—
Colleen Doherty,
Verywell Health,
2 Aug. 2025
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“Blackout.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blackout. Accessed 10 Apr. 2026.
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