单词 | black out |
释义 | black out 1. phrasal verb If you black out, you lose consciousness for a short time. I could feel blood draining from my face. I wondered whether I was about to black out. [VERB PARTICLE] Samadov said that he felt so ill that he blacked out. [VERB PARTICLE] 2. phrasal verb If a place is blacked out, it is in darkness, usually because it has no electricity supply. Large parts of the capital were blacked out after electricity pylons were blown up. [be VERB-ed PARTICLE] 3. phrasal verb [usually passive] If a film or a piece of writing is blacked out, it is prevented from being broadcast or published, usually because it contains information which is secret or offensive. TV pictures of the demonstration were blacked out. [be VERB-ed PARTICLE] 4. phrasal verb If you black out a piece of writing, you colour over it in black so that it cannot be seen. They went through each page, blacking out any information a foreign intelligence expert could use. [VERB PARTICLE noun] Some Welsh activists have started blacking out English language road signs. [VERB PARTICLE noun (not pronoun)] 5. phrasal verb If you black out the memory of something, you try not to remember it because it upsets you. I tried not to think about it. I blacked it out. [VERB noun PARTICLE] 6. See also blackout See full dictionary entry for black |
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