blacked out

past tense of black out
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2
as in darkened
to grow dark with the delivery of the knockout punch, the screen blacks out, and in the next scene the boxer wakes up in the hospital

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3
as in fainted
to lose consciousness blacked out after hitting her head on the beam

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for blacked out
Verb
  • From artisan studios to breweries and other small businesses in the district, the waters erased a huge chunk of the city’s cultural identity.
    Garret K. Woodward, Rolling Stone, 2 Oct. 2024
  • The greys had all been erased from his beard.
    Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2024
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  • As modernization spread throughout Italy in the 1960s, the system was abolished, and farmers abandoned their rustic dwellings in favor of houses with electricity and running water in towns and cities.
    Peter Terzian, Travel + Leisure, 17 Oct. 2024
  • The union also wants the reinstatement of a pension scheme that was abolished in 2008, which is a nonstarter for Boeing.
    Elodie Mazein, Fortune, 15 Oct. 2024
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  • Four years after the radio telescope at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico collapsed, a report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine is shining a light on the unprecedented failures that caused its destruction.
    Nicole Acevedo, NBC News, 13 Nov. 2024
  • Amid the day's elation, tragedy crept in as a 57-year-old man competing in the marathon collapsed and died around the fifth mile marker in the Canadian stretch of the course.
    Liam Rappleye, Detroit Free Press, 21 Oct. 2024
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  • More than half of the deaths were in North Carolina, where several feet of fast-moving water destroyed entire communities.
    NBC News, NBC News, 4 Oct. 2024
  • The wineries surrounding this area did suffer some damage, but only one had a portion of its vineyards destroyed.
    Jessica Dupuy, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
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“Blacked out.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blacked%20out. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.

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