black out English

Meaning black out meaning

What does black out mean?

black out

— verb (= blacken out) darken completely The dining room blackened out

— verb suppress by censorship as for political reasons parts of the newspaper article were blacked out

— verb obliterate or extinguish Some life-forms were obliterated by the radiation, others survived

— verb (= zonk out) lose consciousness due to a sudden trauma, for example

Synonyms black out synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as black out?

black out English » English

pass out

blacken out

faint

swoon

zonk out

dim out

zap

write off

wipe out

waste

swound

sweep

sully

strike off

spoil

smirch

scratch out

score out

sack

ravage

rase

overcloud

obscure

obnubilate

obliterate

obfuscate

nigrify

melanize

melanise

lose consciousness

knock out

kill

fritter

fainting

extinguish

expurgate

erase

eradicate

eclipse

devastate

destruct

denigrate

delineate

delete

darken

cross out

cross off

conk

colly

collapse

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How do I use black out in a sentence?

News and current affairs

He saw one black male standing inside the house and asked him to come out.

He said something about black men in America being singled out, and asked the cop, who was white, for his name and identification.