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All black out synonyms

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verb black out

  • cut off — If you cut something off, you remove it with a knife or a similar tool.
  • darken — If something darkens or if a person or thing darkens it, it becomes darker.
  • faint — lacking brightness, vividness, clearness, loudness, strength, etc.: a faint light; a faint color; a faint sound.
  • pass out — to move past; go by: to pass another car on the road.
  • batten — A batten is a long strip of wood that is fixed to something to strengthen it or to hold it firm.
  • conceal — If you conceal something, you cover it or hide it carefully.
  • eclipse — Astronomy. the obscuration of the light of the moon by the intervention of the earth between it and the sun (lunar eclipse) or the obscuration of the light of the sun by the intervention of the moon between it and a point on the earth (solar eclipse) a similar phenomenon with respect to any other planet and either its satellite or the sun. the partial or complete interception of the light of one component of a binary star by the other.
  • hold back — to elude or evade by a sudden shift of position or by strategy: to dodge a blow; to dodge a question.
  • keel over — Nautical. a central fore-and-aft structural member in the bottom of a hull, extending from the stem to the sternpost and having the floors or frames attached to it, usually at right angles: sometimes projecting from the bottom of the hull to provide stability.
  • obfuscate — to confuse, bewilder, or stupefy.
  • quash — to put down or suppress completely; quell; subdue: to quash a rebellion.
  • rub out — to subject the surface of (a thing or person) to pressure and friction, as in cleaning, smoothing, polishing, coating, massaging, or soothing: to rub a table top with wax polish; to rub the entire back area.
  • shade — the comparative darkness caused by the interception or screening of rays of light from an object, place, or area.
  • smother — to stifle or suffocate, as by smoke or other means of preventing free breathing.
  • squash — to press into a flat mass or pulp; crush: She squashed the flower under her heel.
  • squelch — to strike or press with crushing force; crush down; squash.
  • stifle — to quell, crush, or end by force: to stifle a revolt; to stifle free expression.
  • suppress — to put an end to the activities of (a person, body of persons, etc.): to suppress the Communist and certain left-leaning parties.
  • swoon — to faint; lose consciousness.
  • cover up — If you cover something or someone up, you put something over them in order to protect or hide them.
  • zonk out — to fall asleep, esp from physical exhaustion or the effects of alcohol or drugs
  • collapse — If a building or other structure collapses, it falls down very suddenly.
  • crap out — to make a losing throw in craps
  • draw a blank — (of paper or other writing surface) having no marks; not written or printed on: a blank sheet of paper.
  • zone out — any continuous area that differs in some respect, or is distinguished for some purpose, from adjoining areas, or within which certain distinctive circumstances exist or are established: The decisions were formulated in a zone of uncertainty. The temperature lies outside the danger zone.
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