BLANKED (OUT) Synonyms: 28 Similar and Opposite Words

blanked (out)

verb

past tense of blank (out)

as in died (away or down or out)

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dried up

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Nonetheless, Barratt’s already-small team shrank from 11 to three, and funding for their work, which was being shared across the division, dried up.

— Blake Ellis, CNN Money, 20 July 2026
These rivers have not dried up but rather have been buried in concrete, and though Athens is no stranger to its present being dug up and overturned to showcase the past, this burial was a reversal.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 July 2026

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