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Blackout
Blackout(s) may refer to:
Loss of lighting or communication
- Blackout (broadcasting), a regulatory ban on the broadcasting of an event
- Blackout (fabric), a textile material that blocks light
- Blackout (wartime), the practice of minimizing outdoor lighting for protection from attack
- Communications blackout, a halt to communication abilities or utilization
- English Wikipedia blackout, a protest action in response to proposed U.S. legislation
- New Zealand Internet Blackout, an online protest'
- Media blackout, censorship of news related to a certain topic
- New York City blackout of 1977
- Power outage, an accidental loss of electric power
- Rolling blackout, an intentional loss of electric power
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black out
Verb
1. obliterate or extinguish; "Some life-forms were obliterated by the radiation, others survived"
(hypernym) snuff out, blow out, extinguish, quench
2. darken completely; "The dining room blackened out"
(synonym) blacken out
(hypernym) darken
(derivation) blackout
3. suppress by censorship as for political reasons; "parts of the newspaper article were blacked out"
(hypernym) edit, redact
(derivation) blackout
4. lose consciousness due to a sudden trauma, for example
(synonym) zonk out, pass out
(hypernym) change state, turn
(hyponym) faint, conk, swoon, pass out
(derivation) blackout
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black-out
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blackout
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black out
remove the nameplate and trim from a vehicle James Dean drove a blacked-out Merc in Rebel Without A Cause.
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black out
Synonyms and related words:
annul, becloud, bedarken, bedim, begloom, black, blacken, block the light, blot out, brown, cancel, cast a shadow, censor, cloud, cloud over, crap out, darken, darken over, delete, dim, dim out, drop, eclipse, efface, encloud, encompass with shadow, expunge, faint, fall senseless, gloom, gray out, hugger-mugger, hush, hush up, hush-hush, keel over, kill, muffle, murk, obfuscate, obliterate, obnubilate, obscure, obumbrate, occult, occultate, overcast, overcloud, overshadow, pass out, quash, repress, shade, shadow, shush, sit on, smother, somber, squash, squelch, stifle, succumb, suppress, swoon, wipe out,
annul, becloud, bedarken, bedim, begloom, black, blacken, block the light, blot out, brown, cancel, cast a shadow, censor, cloud, cloud over, crap out, darken, darken over, delete, dim, dim out, drop, eclipse, efface, encloud, encompass with shadow, expunge, faint, fall senseless, gloom, gray out, hugger-mugger, hush, hush up, hush-hush, keel over, kill, muffle, murk, obfuscate, obliterate, obnubilate, obscure, obumbrate, occult, occultate, overcast, overcloud, overshadow, pass out, quash, repress, shade, shadow, shush, sit on, smother, somber, squash, squelch, stifle, succumb, suppress, swoon, wipe out,
Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.
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