blackedadj.
/blakt/, U.S. /blækt/ 1. Made or coloured black; blackened.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > black or blackness > making or becoming black > [adjective] > blackened
forswartedc1305
bletchy1520
blackeneda1522
well-blacked1592
collied1600
blackeda1643
a1643 W. Cartwright Ordinary (1651) iii. v. 48 Coblers were made Church-men, and those black'd Smutch'd Creatures thrust into white Surplisses, Look'd like so many Magpies.
1680 R. Boyle Aerial Noctiluca 20 A piece of black'd Paper pasted upon the Vial.
1716 J. Addison Drummer v. 45 Mourning Paper, that is black'd at the Edges.
1798 Monthly Mirror Nov. 264 A blacked face, or the obligation of remaining in some ludicrous posture, generally constitute the punishment of the vanquished party.
1829 W. Scott Guy Mannering (new ed.) II. xxiv. 318 Do you see that blackit and broken end of a sheeling?
1891 R. L. Stevenson Vailima Lett. (1895) iv. 47 With blacked faces, turbans,..and guns, they looked very manly.
1946 D. Thomas Deaths & Entrances 34 Two proud, blacked brothers cry, Winter-locked side by side.
1997 S. B. Morrow Names of Things 199 The blacked beans are turned from the can into..a mortar carved by hand.
2. blacked out.
a. Obliterated or covered with black; hidden from view.
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the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > [adjective] > effaced, obliterated > of text, etc.
razed?1518
scored1775
blacked out1877
x-ed1969
1877 Priced Catal. Sciopticon Apparatus (App.) 4 in L. J. Marcy Sciopticon Man. (ed. 6) The peculiar advantages of the Sciopticon stage, tinters, cut-off, etc., and the facility with which various blacked-out statuary may be smoothly passed over the disk.
1940 C. Day Lewis tr. Virgil Georgics i. 23 At the South pole..it's dead of night,..the shadows shrouded in night, blacked out for ever.
2005 R. Stich Drugging Amer. (2006) ix. 248 Houston television station khou..had Matthews appear..with his face blacked out.
b. Of a light: extinguished, concealed. Also of a town, building, etc.: with lights extinguished or concealed as a precaution against air raids.
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the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > [adjective] > unilluminated or unilluminating > extinguished > with lights extinguished or obscured
blacked out1919
1919 Illustr. London News 27 Sept. 482 (caption) No longer ‘blacked out’: London herself again.
1939 Punch 8 Nov. 504/2 We must still endure the totally blacked-out nights.
1940 New Statesman 19 Oct. 371 Most unfavourable conditions—crowded shelters, stuffy, blacked-out factories and offices.
1951 V. Nabokov Speak, Memory xiv. 220 Opaque curtains separated me from blacked-out Paris.
2002 T. Clancy et al. Shadow Warriors i. 29 Special Operations Low Level crews fly blacked-out, low-level, and in all weather conditions.
c. Of an aircraft pilot: temporarily blinded. See to black out 3 at black v. Phrasal verbs. rare.
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1933 Flight 2 Feb. 100/1 Tight turns had been made for much longer periods than 10 sec., while the pilot was ‘blacked out’, without any tendency whatsoever to lose consciousness.
2004 H. Wade Cold War Fighter Pilot 48 The standard comment from the student was, ‘well sir, I was blacked out and didn't see anything until we were on final approach.’
3. Declared to be black (black adj. 13b) in an industrial dispute. Cf. black v. 3b.
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society > occupation and work > working > labour relations > [adjective] > relating to strike > relating to strike-breaking
black1911
blacked1960
1960 Guardian 21 Dec. 2/4 Four men who refused to repair ‘blacked’ machinery.
1980 Times 3 June 21/7 The correctness of this customary demand against blacked ships was tested in the courts in April.
2005 Bath Chron. (Nexis) 15 June 28 Mr John Billard..said blacked work was being passed to Bath and other district tax offices because Bristol civil servants were refusing to handle it.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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