| 单词 | black something out |
| 释义 | 1 (phrasal verb) The whole city is blacked out at night. Synonyms darken A storm darkened the sky. cover the black patch which covered his left eye shade a health resort whose beaches are shaded by palm trees conceal The device, concealed in a dustbin, was defused by police. obscure the jargon that frequently obscures legal documents eclipse The sun was eclipsed by the moon. dim The dusk sky dims to a chilly indigo. blacken The smoke blackened the sky like the apocalypse. obfuscate (formal) They are deliberately obfuscating the issue. make dark make darker make dim 2 (phrasal verb) Some activists started blacking out road signs. Synonyms suppress At no time did they try to persuade me to suppress the information. conceal Robert could not conceal his relief. obscure cover up censor Court officials have reserved the right to censor proceedings. whitewash The administration is whitewashing the regime's actions. hush up blue-pencil cut expurgate The work was heavily expurgated for its second edition. bowdlerize She had ceased to bowdlerize her storytelling. Additional synonymsin the sense of blacken Definition to make or become black or dirty The smoke blackened the sky like the apocalypse. Synonyms make dark, shadow, shade, obscure, overshadow, make darker, make dim in the sense of bowdlerize Definition to remove passages or words regarded as indecent from (a play, novel, etc.) She had ceased to bowdlerize her storytelling. Synonyms censor, cut, clean up, blue-pencil, expurgate, sanitizein the sense of censor Definition to ban or cut portions of (a film, letter, or publication) Court officials have reserved the right to censor proceedings. Synonyms expurgate, cut, blue-pencil, bowdlerizeNearby words of |
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