| v. i. | 1. | to experience a temporary loss of consciousness, memory, or vision. |
| v. t. | 1. | to cause to become black, such as a stage, a computer screen, or a city. |
| 2. | to impose a blackout on (news or a sports event). | |
| 3. | to make (a written text) illegible by applying a black ink over it; to blot out. | |
| 4. | to suppress (a memory). |
| Verb | 1. | black out - obliterate or extinguish; "Some life-forms were obliterated by the radiation, others survived" |
| 2. | black out - darken completely; "The dining room blackened out" Synonyms: blacken out | |
| 3. | black out - suppress by censorship as for political reasons; "parts of the newspaper article were blacked out" | |
| 4. | black out - lose consciousness due to a sudden trauma, for example |
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