black out

black out
phrasal verb
Word forms "black out":
present tense I/you/we/they black out he/she/it blacks out present participle blacking out past tense blacked out past participle blacked out
1) [intransitive] to suddenly become unconscious

He had blacked out as his car hit the tree.

2) [transitive] to prevent someone from reading or seeing something by covering it with something dark

Half the pages in the report had been blacked out for security reasons.

3) [transitive] to make a place dark by turning off all the lights, for example so that the enemy cannot see a place at night.

English dictionary. 2014.

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