Noun black out has 5 senses
  1. blackout - a suspension of radio or tv broadcasting
    --1 is a kind of pause, intermission, break, interruption, suspension
    Derived form: verb black out3
  2. blackout, brownout, dimout - darkness resulting from the extinction of lights (as in a city invisible to enemy aircraft)
    --2 is a kind of dark, darkness
    Derived form: verb black out2
  3. blackout - the failure of electric power for a general region
    --3 is a kind of power outage, power failure
    Derived form: verb black out2
  4. blackout - a momentary loss of consciousness
    --4 is a kind of unconsciousness
    Derived form: verb black out4
  5. amnesia, memory loss, blackout - partial or total loss of memory; "he has a total blackout for events of the evening"
    --5 is a kind of cognitive state, state of mind
    --5 has particulars:
     anterograde amnesia, posttraumatic amnesia; retrograde amnesia; forgetfulness; selective amnesia; transient global amnesia
,Verb black out has 4 senses
  1. black out - obliterate or extinguish; "Some life-forms were obliterated by the radiation, others survived"
    --1 is one way to
    snuff out, blow out, extinguish, quench
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Something ----s something
  2. black out, blacken out - darken completely; "The dining room blackened out"
    --2 is one way to darken
    Derived forms: noun blackout3, noun blackout2
    Sample sentence:
    Something ----s
  3. black out - suppress by censorship as for political reasons; "parts of the newspaper article were blacked out"
    --3 is one way to
    edit, redact
    Derived form: noun blackout1
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
  4. zonk out, pass out, black out - lose consciousness due to a sudden trauma, for example
    --4 is one way to change state, turn
    Derived form: noun blackout4
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s
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