blackout
IPA: bɫˈækaʊt
noun
- A temporary loss of consciousness.
- A temporary loss of memory.
- A large-scale power failure, and resulting loss of electricity to consumers.
- An instance of censorship, especially a temporary one.
- (Internet) An intentional outage of a website or other online service, typically as a form of protest.
- (historical) The mandatory blocking of all light emanating from buildings, as well as outdoor and street lighting as a measure against aerial bombing or naval attack, as imposed during, e.g., World War II.
- (attributive) The blocking out of as much light as possible.
- (slang, criminology, rare) A mass murder committed, usually in an urban area, to eliminate potential witnesses of a previous crime.
verb
- (nonstandard) Alternative form of black out [(transitive) To censor or cover up by writing over with black ink.]
black out
IPA: bɫˈækˈaʊt
verb
- (transitive) To censor or cover up by writing over with black ink.
- (transitive, figuratively) To censor or cover up.
- (intransitive) To lose consciousness; to suffer a blackout.
- (transitive) To obscure in darkness.
- (intransitive) To be in a state of blackout, as a building, a city, a ship.
black-out
IPA: bɫˈækˈaʊt
noun
- Alternative spelling of blackout [A temporary loss of consciousness.]
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Examples of "blackout" in Sentences
- The guests carried on talking during the blackout.
- Even the reporting of the blackout itself was forbidden.
- All of the country's territory was affected by the blackout.
- According the novel, the blackout was caused by the Gremlins.
- Are these songs the candidates to be put in The Blackout album
- However this undercuts the plot elements of the novel 'Blackout'.
- In the article, it states that Blackout is the largest Decepticon.
- But Ken and the others get suspicious at the length of the blackout.
- As such a complete blackout was enforced in the airfield and the camp.
- The small initial outage quickly cascaded into the Northeast Blackout of 1965.
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