单词 | to black out |
释义 | > as lemmasto black out to black out 1. transitive. To obliterate with black, esp. as a form of censorship or protection. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > efface, obliterate [verb (transitive)] > by covering with liquid unpainta1648 bisk1713 to paint out1834 to black out1850 ink out1881 to white out1974 Tippex1983 1850 R. Browning Christmas-eve viii. 95 If He blacked out in a blot My brief life's pleasantness. 1856 Gen. Gordon Let. 18 Nov. (1884) 121 The Russian censor who blacks out all matter that is displeasing to the Government. 1905 Westm. Gaz. 2 Mar. 10/2 A memorial..urging that betting news should be ‘blacked out’ from the newspapers in the libraries... Ultimately the Committee decided to ‘black-out’ horse-racing news. 1993 N.Y. Times 19 Sept. iv. 16/1 When documents are declassified, key passages are often blacked out, on the pretext of protecting sources and methods. 2004 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 12 Aug. 40/1 Receiving enormous amounts of cash from a notorious empresario , or rich businessman, whose face was blacked out on the film. 2. transitive. To extinguish or obscure (lights), esp. during a stage performance, or as a precaution against air raids; to cause (a building, city, etc.) to become dark in this way, or because of a power cut. Also intransitive of lights, etc.: to be so extinguished or obscured. Also in extended use. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > make dark [verb (transitive)] > quench (light) aquenchc1000 quenchOE to do outa1425 extinct1483 to put outa1500 out-quencha1522 dout1526 pop1530 extinguish1551 to put forth1598 snuff1688 douse1753 douse1780 smoor1808 to turn out1844 outen1877 to turn off1892 to black out1913 the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > become dark [verb (intransitive)] > go out or be extinguished quench?c1225 aquencha1250 to go out?a1425 quenta1500 to black out1934 1913 L. J. Vance Joan Thursday xxv. 246 Every light in the house other than the red ‘exit’ lamps was ‘blacked out’. 1934 Sun (Baltimore) 15 Aug. 4/6 There will be a burst of music, and the lights will ‘black out’. This will form the prelude to the pageant. 1939 Daily Mail 12 Sept. 5/3 It took about three visits from courteous wardens before my house was properly blacked out. 1940 Ann. Reg. 1939 377 In many countries the lamps of science were dimmed, and in Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, and Finland they were blacked out. 1965 in M. McLuhan & Q. Fiore Medium is Massage (1967) 149 The largest power failure in history blacked out nearly all of New York City. 1986 J. Bauman Winter in Morning (1991) iii. 39 All windows were thoroughly blacked out, so that after the early sunset of winter the streets were pitch dark. 2001 N.Y. Times Mag. 4 Feb. 9/4 Space weather also can blow out industrial power grids. (In 1989, it blacked out all of Quebec for several hours.) 3. intransitive. Of a person: to experience a blackout or temporary loss of (esp.) consciousness (blackout n. 2). Cf. earlier blacking out n. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > physical insensibility > unconsciousness > lose consciousness [verb (intransitive)] > faint or swoon swotherc1000 swowa1250 swoonc1290 sweltc1330 trance1340 to fall on, in swowa1375 swapc1386 sound1393 dwelea1400 swaya1400 faintc1440 owmawt1440 swalmc1440 sweamc1440 syncopize1490 dwalm?a1513 swarf1513 swound1530 cothe1567 sweb1599 to go away1655 to die away1707 go1768 sink1769 sile1790 to pass out1915 to black out1935 1925 J. Dos Passos Manhattan Transfer ii. vii. 254 Everything was blacking out. She grabbed at two bright buttons on the policeman's coat and fainted.] 1935 Pop. Mech. May 706/2 One might hear a test pilot say: ‘Well, I guess I'd better tape myself up to try out that new job. I don't want to black out.’ 1940 Illustr. London News 196 449/1 The blood in his head seeks to fly outwards, and..runs towards his legs and drains from behind his eyes, so that he becomes temporarily blind, or ‘blacks out’. 1958 P. Mortimer Daddy's gone a-Hunting vii. 36 The child, dizzy with speed, was blacking out. 1970 E. Kübler-Ross On Death & Dying (1973) x. 178 I got real sick one day and fell down the stairs and felt real weak and was blacking out. 1989 N. Cave And Ass saw Angel ii. ii. 108 Ah went unner, blacked out, and when ah awoke ah could smell the piss all over me. 2002 Independent 17 Aug. 15/7 Then a guy in the front row blacked out. < as lemmas |
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