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obliterate or extinguish
Some life-forms were obliterated by the radiation, others survived -
suppress by censorship as for political reasons
parts of the newspaper article were blacked out - lose consciousness due to a sudden trauma, for example
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darken completely
The dining room blackened out
How To Use black out In A Sentence
- Don't let work in other fields black out our central task.
- Our evil plan is to black out an entire city.
- She grabbed her weapons and gently placed them in the proper places around her black outfit.
- After several intense cabinet meetings, Obama appeared to back down and go along with a Panetta proposal to heavily "redact" - black out-all references to specific interrogation techniques, say the administration sources. AfterDowningStreet.org - Bush-Cheney Trials in '09
- It was pitch black outside, and the ground was dry and cracked, as if the storm had produced lightning but no rain.
- The first five minutes of the black out fried all the communication channels and security controls.
- Many times, he hit his head on sharp projections of rock from the low, stone ceiling that nearly made him black out again.
- You have to black out all the windows to develop films.
- Be careful to position your eye in the center of the finder to be able to see all the microprisms; some will black out if your eye is uncentered.
- And while I admit to being slightly thrown off by the plethora of skin-tight black outfits, there are a number of reasons why director Stephen Sommers 'take on the iconic 1980's toy line may be worth standing in line for. MTV Staffer — And ‘G.I. Joe’ Fanatic — Remains Convinced ‘Rise Of Cobra’ Is Headed In Right Direction » MTV Movies Blog
