blacked out

past tense of black out
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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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Verb
  • Only a few years had passed since the WHO declared in 1979 that smallpox was the first human disease to be eradicated worldwide.
    Sam Mednick, Chicago Tribune, 30 Dec. 2024
  • Individual errors cannot be eradicated entirely, but must be reduced.
    Matt Woosnam, The Athletic, 27 Dec. 2024
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  • The other database eschews page numbers all together, so there’s literally no way of knowing that the articles—which were once leading articles of the magazines in question—have been erased.
    Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 7 Jan. 2025
  • Meanwhile, entire issues of other Chinese legal and social science journals have been erased from databases.
    Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 7 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • In 2023, a group of House Republicans attempted to raise sales taxes with the FairTax Act, which would have abolished the Internal Revenue Service and replaced income tax and other levies with a national sales tax.
    Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 3 Jan. 2025
  • Courtesy of the Social Security Fairness Act, millions of Americans will see higher Social Security checks now that the windfall elimination provision (WEP) and GPO (government pension offset) have been abolished.
    Suzanne Blake Reporter, Newsweek, 3 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Yet his regime collapsed within days of the start of a coordinated rebel offensive.
    Hamidreza Azizi, Foreign Affairs, 23 Dec. 2024
  • The 150ft section of the pier that collapsed, which included a restroom, was being worked on after it had been damaged by storms in the past.
    Hannah Parry, Newsweek, 23 Dec. 2024
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  • Helene destroyed homes and roads, stranded residents without phone service and water, and claimed the lives of nearly 250 people throughout the Southeast.
    Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 26 Dec. 2024
  • Lauren Sommer was one of the first reporters in Lahaina after the extreme wildfire destroyed homes and took lives.
    NPR Staff, NPR, 26 Dec. 2024
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“Blacked out.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blacked%20out. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.

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