Thesaurus
black out
verb
Synonyms and Antonyms of BLACK OUT
1
to destroy all traces of <had spent most of her adulthood trying to black out memories of a wretched childhood>
Synonyms abolish, black out, blot out, cancel, clean (up), efface, eradicate, erase, expunge, exterminate, extirpate, liquidate, obliterate, root (out), rub out, snuff (out), stamp (out), sweep (away), wipe out
Related Words decimate, demolish, destroy, devastate, ravage; dismantle, flatten, mow (down), raze, tear down; ruin, total, waste, wreck; blast, blow up, dash, dynamite, smash; atomize, consume, devour, dissolve, fragment, powder, pulverize, shatter, splinter; doom, finish, kill, kill off, terminate, zap; cancel, cut, discard, ditch, eject, excise, expel, jettison, oust, throw out
2
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>
3
to lose consciousness <blacked out after hitting her head on the beam>
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