Black Out

Definitions: Black Out

Black Out

Verb

1. Obliterate or extinguish, of lights; "Some life-forms were obliterated by the radiation, others survived.".

2. Darken completely; "The dining room blackened out".

3. Suppress by censorship; of reporting, as for political reasons.

4. Lose consciousness due to a sudden trauma, for example.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Fine Arts

Medicine

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Synonyms: Black Out

Crosswords: Black Out

Well neither do I, but when you black out we don't know what you believe in do we? (Ninja III: The Domination; writing credit: James R. Silke)

Black Out (1970)

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Books

• Black Out (Law & Order) (reference)

  (more book examples)

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Albanian

bie të fikët (faint, lose consciousness, swoon), mbaj të fshehtë (conceal, hide, secrete), errësoj (adumbrate, becloud, bedim, blur, darken, dim, dusk, eclipse, fog, obfuscate, obscure, overshadow, shadow). (various references)

Arabic 

‏تعتيم (dimness), ‏إطفاء الأنوار كلها. (various references)

Bulgarian 

зачерквам (blank, cancel, cross off, cross out, delete, kill, score out, scratch off, strike, write off), затъмнявам (adumbrate, becloud, cloud, darken, eclipse, obscure, occult, outshine, out-top, shade, shadow), заглушавам (deaden, deafen, drown, dull, intercept, jam, jam out, kill, obstruct, overgrow, silence), забранявам (ban, disallow, enjoin, estop, forbid, inhibit, interdict, prohibit, proscribe, provide against, suppress, veto). (various references)

Czech

ztratit vìdomí (fall unconscious), zhasnout (douse, fizzle out, go off, go out, pack up, snuff out, switch off, turn off, turn out), zatemnit (darken, darkle, dim out, obfuscate, obscure, overcloud), výpadek proudu, přerušit (abort, adjourn, break off, cut off, cut short, discontinue, disrupt, intermit, interrupt, split up, stop, suspend, terminate, turn off), omdlít (faint, feint, go out, pass out, swoon). (various references)

Danish

black out, udfald af radiosignaler. (various references)

Dutch

black-out. (various references)

Finnish

näön musteneminen. (various references)

French

voile noir, vision noire, tomber dans les pommes, s'évanouir, occultation (blanketing), extinction (blanking), décrochage. (various references)

German

Black-Out, verdunkeln (becloud, damage, darken, deepen, dim, dim out, eclipse, harm, obscure, suppress, to darken), Schwarzsehen, ohnmächtig werden (faint, pass out, swoon, to faint, to keel over), Funkstille (blackout, radio blackout, radio silence), das bewusstsein verlieren. (various references)

Greek 

συσκοτίζω (becloud, obfuscate), λιποθυμώ (faint, flake out, pass out, swoon), αμαύρωση όρασης στην πτήση (blackout), απαγορεύω την δημοσίευση είδησησ, διάλειψη (fade, fading, fading of signals, occultation), διαγράφω (cancel, cross off, cross out, delete, delineate, erase, rub out, score out, scratch out, silhouette, strike off, strike out, wipe out, write off). (various references)

Hungarian

elájul (faint, swoon, to collapse, to faint, to fall down in a faint, to fall insensible, to fall into a swoon, to go off, to go off in a faint, to go off in a swoon, to lose one's senses, to pass out, to swoon), cenzúráz (censor, red pencil, to blue-pencil, to censor). (various references)

Indonesian

penggelapan (blackout, cover up, darkenong, embezling, embezzlement, fraud, malversation, scam). (various references)

Italian

blackout, visione nera, silenzio radio, oscurare (become obscure, blacken, blind, darken, dim, obscure, overcast, overshadow, shade, shadow). (various references)

Manx

lane-vooghey soilshey. (various references)

Pig Latin

ackblay outay

Portuguese

visão negra. (various references)

Romanian

cenzura (censor), camuflaj (camouflage, dazzle, veil), camufla (black, conceal, disguise, hide), avea un lapsus, amnezie (amnesia), înnegri (black, blacken, smut, smutch), înãbuşire (choke, repression). (various references)

Russian 

вычеркивать (blue-pencil, cancel, cross off, cross out, delete, efface, expunge, expurgate, kill, line through, obliterate, raze, score out, scratch, scratch out, strike off, strike out), вымарывать (delete), затемнять (adumbrate, becloud, bedim, blind, darken, dim, dim out, eclipse, obfuscate, obscure, overcast, overshadow). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zamračiti (becloud, cloud, darken, obfuscate, obscure), izgubiti pamćenje. (various references)

Spanish

visión negra, silencio de señal, perder el conocimiento (lose consciousness), apagar las luces (light out). (various references)

Swedish

tuppa av (conk, nod off, pass out), stryka ut (blot, blue pencil, cross off, cross out, iron out, obliterate, scratch out, strike off), mörkläggning (blackout, black-out, dim out), mörklägga. (various references)

Ukranian 

викреслювати (blot out, blue pencil, cancel, cross off, cross out, delete, efface, elide, erase, expunge, line out, obliterate, rase, raze, score out, scratch off, scratch out). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: blackout.

-1 letter: backout, outback.

-2 letters: cobalt.

-3 letters: about, baulk, black, bloat, block, bucko, caulk, cloak, clout, octal, taluk, tubal.

-4 letters: abut, alto, auto, back, balk, blat, bloc, blot, boat, bock, bola, bolt, bota, bout, buck, bulk, calk, calo, caul, clot, club, coal, coat, cola, colt, cult, kola, lack, loca, lock, lota, lout, luck, tabu, tack, taco.

+1 letter: blackouts.

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