blackout English

Meaning blackout meaning

What does blackout mean?

Definitions in simple English

blackout Noun

— If someone blackouts, they lose consciousness or memory temporarily.

— A blackout is a large-scale power failure which results in the loss of electricity.

blackout

— noun darkness resulting from the extinction of lights (as in a city invisible to enemy aircraft)

— noun a suspension of radio or tv broadcasting

— noun a momentary loss of consciousness

— noun the failure of electric power for a general region

— noun partial or total loss of memory he has a total blackout for events of the evening

Synonyms blackout synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as blackout?

blackout English » English

swoon

faint

syncope

power outage

brownout

unconsciousness

stupor

power failure

power cut

insensibility

dimout

trance

stupefaction

obfuscation

memory loss

amnesia

total eclipse

shelter

shadowing

shadow

shading

screen

occultation

loss of consciousness

haze

giddiness

failure of electricity supply

electricity outage

eclipse

deliquium

darkening

coma

collapse

blankoff

blanking

black-out

black out

amaurosis fugax

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Examples blackout examples

How do I use blackout in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Tom believes that there will be a big blackout soon.

Put out the candle. The blackout is over.

Every hospital has a back-up electric generator in case of blackout.

Tom had a drunken blackout and can't remember how he got home last night.

Movie subtitles

It's all one big blur, like one big blackout.

Well, could that be the concussion or an alcohol-related blackout?

No, it's a blackout.

A slight blackout. Come along, my good man.

Oh, the blackout.

The blackout's a success.

Well, it's a blackout.

Next time there's a blackout, you'd better get under the table.

Blackout again.

You know, this blackout in dive-bombing is a very interesting medical subject.

We don't know whether that last one was high-altitude sickness blackout or just too much smart surgery.

But now I've got some ideas for research on blackout and high-altitude sickness.

If we lick blackout in our present planes the answer will be good a long time.

Our old friend blackout.

Can you explain to me the reason for the blackout?

Have you ever tried a blackout?

His blackout glasses.

But you don't wear dark glasses in a blackout.

This is a blackout.

Get out of those clothes! You look like a double blackout.

There will be blackout any minute.

You can't put the light on. There's a blackout.

I must have had some sort of a blackout.

The blackout won't last too long.a few minutes, tops.

He's feeling indisposed. A slight blackout.

Oh, you look like a black out in a blackout.

No light of any description should be visible after blackout time.

Listen, if you don't keep quiet, I'll serve you with a blackout.

He came out of the blackout about a second before I did.

Do you remember that blackout we had the other night?

By this time, I'd had a few drinks. Which resulted in a real blackout for me.

Vi, what did we do with the blackout stuff?

There's a blackout.

Complete blackout, huh?

Carry on the blackout, sir?

Blackout and curfew restrictionswill be rigidly enforced.

I got to turn off the lights,'cause of the blackout outside.

News and current affairs

Despite a news blackout during the riots in Lhasa, for example, Chinese Internet users managed to dodge the country's censorship.

The blackout imposed on Chechnya prevents any precise assessment of the devastating effects of a ruthless conflict.

The August 2003 blackout in the northeastern US revealed that more than a dozen nuclear reactors in the US and Canada were not properly maintaining backup diesel generators.

Despite this news blackout, China's blogosphere and microblogs exploded after Liu was announced as the winner.

The news blackout imposed by Burma's military junta on its decision to forego its turn as chair of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) next year shows that it has received a severe blow to its prestige.

While financial institutions tried to mitigate risks by bundling subprime mortgages, Fukushima's cooling system was able to cope with either a blackout and an earthquake or a tsunami.