Overview of noun black_out

The noun blackout has 5 senses

• blackout -- (a suspension of radio or tv broadcasting)


• blackout, brownout, dimout -- (darkness resulting from the extinction of lights (as in a city invisible to enemy aircraft))


• blackout -- (the failure of electric power for a general region)


• blackout -- (a momentary loss of consciousness)


• amnesia, memory loss, blackout -- (partial or total loss of memory; "he has a total blackout for events of the evening")

Overview of verb black_out

The verb black out has 4 senses

• black out -- (obliterate or extinguish; "Some life-forms were obliterated by the radiation, others survived")


• black out, blacken out -- (darken completely; "The dining room blackened out")


• black out -- (suppress by censorship as for political reasons; "parts of the newspaper article were blacked out")


• zonk out, pass out, black out -- (lose consciousness due to a sudden trauma, for example)