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单词 to black out
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to black out
to black out
1. transitive. To obliterate with black, esp. as a form of censorship or protection. Also figurative.
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the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > efface, obliterate [verb (transitive)] > by covering with liquid
unpainta1648
bisk1713
to paint out1834
to black out1850
ink out1881
to white out1974
Tippex1983
1850 R. Browning Christmas-eve viii. 95 If He blacked out in a blot My brief life's pleasantness.
1856 Gen. Gordon Let. 18 Nov. (1884) 121 The Russian censor who blacks out all matter that is displeasing to the Government.
1905 Westm. Gaz. 2 Mar. 10/2 A memorial..urging that betting news should be ‘blacked out’ from the newspapers in the libraries... Ultimately the Committee decided to ‘black-out’ horse-racing news.
1993 N.Y. Times 19 Sept. iv. 16/1 When documents are declassified, key passages are often blacked out, on the pretext of protecting sources and methods.
2004 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 12 Aug. 40/1 Receiving enormous amounts of cash from a notorious empresario , or rich businessman, whose face was blacked out on the film.
2. transitive. To extinguish or obscure (lights), esp. during a stage performance, or as a precaution against air raids; to cause (a building, city, etc.) to become dark in this way, or because of a power cut. Also intransitive of lights, etc.: to be so extinguished or obscured. Also in extended use.
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the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > make dark [verb (transitive)] > quench (light)
aquenchc1000
quenchOE
to do outa1425
extinct1483
to put outa1500
out-quencha1522
dout1526
pop1530
extinguish1551
to put forth1598
snuff1688
douse1753
douse1780
smoor1808
to turn out1844
outen1877
to turn off1892
to black out1913
the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > become dark [verb (intransitive)] > go out or be extinguished
quench?c1225
aquencha1250
to go out?a1425
quenta1500
to black out1934
1913 L. J. Vance Joan Thursday xxv. 246 Every light in the house other than the red ‘exit’ lamps was ‘blacked out’.
1934 Sun (Baltimore) 15 Aug. 4/6 There will be a burst of music, and the lights will ‘black out’. This will form the prelude to the pageant.
1939 Daily Mail 12 Sept. 5/3 It took about three visits from courteous wardens before my house was properly blacked out.
1940 Ann. Reg. 1939 377 In many countries the lamps of science were dimmed, and in Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, and Finland they were blacked out.
1965 in M. McLuhan & Q. Fiore Medium is Massage (1967) 149 The largest power failure in history blacked out nearly all of New York City.
1986 J. Bauman Winter in Morning (1991) iii. 39 All windows were thoroughly blacked out, so that after the early sunset of winter the streets were pitch dark.
2001 N.Y. Times Mag. 4 Feb. 9/4 Space weather also can blow out industrial power grids. (In 1989, it blacked out all of Quebec for several hours.)
3. intransitive. Of a person: to experience a blackout or temporary loss of (esp.) consciousness (blackout n. 2). Cf. earlier blacking out n. 2.
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the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > physical insensibility > unconsciousness > lose consciousness [verb (intransitive)] > faint or swoon
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swowa1250
swoonc1290
sweltc1330
trance1340
to fall on, in swowa1375
swapc1386
sound1393
dwelea1400
swaya1400
faintc1440
owmawt1440
swalmc1440
sweamc1440
syncopize1490
dwalm?a1513
swarf1513
swound1530
cothe1567
sweb1599
to go away1655
to die away1707
go1768
sink1769
sile1790
to pass out1915
to black out1935
1925 J. Dos Passos Manhattan Transfer ii. vii. 254 Everything was blacking out. She grabbed at two bright buttons on the policeman's coat and fainted.]
1935 Pop. Mech. May 706/2 One might hear a test pilot say: ‘Well, I guess I'd better tape myself up to try out that new job. I don't want to black out.’
1940 Illustr. London News 196 449/1 The blood in his head seeks to fly outwards, and..runs towards his legs and drains from behind his eyes, so that he becomes temporarily blind, or ‘blacks out’.
1958 P. Mortimer Daddy's gone a-Hunting vii. 36 The child, dizzy with speed, was blacking out.
1970 E. Kübler-Ross On Death & Dying (1973) x. 178 I got real sick one day and fell down the stairs and felt real weak and was blacking out.
1989 N. Cave And Ass saw Angel ii. ii. 108 Ah went unner, blacked out, and when ah awoke ah could smell the piss all over me.
2002 Independent 17 Aug. 15/7 Then a guy in the front row blacked out.
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