black out

Speech parts

1. black out - Noun

2. black out - Verb

3. black out - Phrase

Meaning

lose consciousness due to a sudden trauma, for example

suppress by censorship as for political reasons

darken completely

obliterate or extinguish

Source: WordNet

Alternative names

black-out

Synonyms

pass out faint darken zonk out cut fall kayo cover remove drop collapse eliminate suppress obscure cancel
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Antonyms

herald air issue report spread shape
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Hypernyms

turn extinguish darken quench edit blow-out

Hyponyms

faint swoon conk pass out

Examples

Persian envoy "our arrows will black out the sun..." Dienekes of the Spartans.."Good, then we'll fight in the shade. Steven Pressfield

I don't mind being black. I'm black out loud. It's more than the people that they are, it's the condition that they represent. Mos Def

I actually had kind of one of those crazy experiences where when I hit, it was black out excruciating pain, and then white out absence of pain, and the subconscience thought that I want to go back. Brooke Burns

It was the heaviest thing I'd ever felt, as if I were being crushed under a thousand trucks. I wanted to black out from the pain, but I breathed deeply. Rick Riordan

parts of the newspaper article were blacked out Source: Internet

The dining room blackened out Source: Internet

Words in the phrase

black out

Close letter words and terms

black operations Black Ops black oriole black oven black ox black oyster plant