单词 | blacked out |
释义 | > as lemmasblacked out 2. blacked out. extracted from blackedadj. a. Obliterated or covered with black; hidden from view. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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.’ < as lemmas |
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