BLANK OUT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does blank out mean? 

• BLANK OUT (verb)
  The verb BLANK OUT has 2 senses:

1. be unable to remember

2. cut out, as for political reasons

  Familiarity information: BLANK OUT used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLANK OUT (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Be unable to remember

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

blank out; block; draw a blank; forget

Context example:

You are blocking the name of your first wife!

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "blank out"):

slip; slip one's mind (pass out of one's memory)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Sense 2

Meaning:

Cut out, as for political reasons

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

several line in the report were blanked out

Hypernyms (to "blank out" is one way to...):

edit; redact (prepare for publication or presentation by correcting, revising, or adapting)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something