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B0292200 (blăk)adj. black·er, black·est 1. Being of the color black, producing or reflecting comparatively little light and having no predominant hue.2. Having little or no light: a black, moonless night.3. also Blacka. Of or belonging to a racial group having brown to black skin, especially one of African origin: the black population of South Africa.b. Of or belonging to an American ethnic group descended from African peoples having dark skin; African-American.4. Very dark in color: rich black soil; black, wavy hair.5. Being a trail, as for skiing, marked with a sign having a black diamond, indicating a high level of difficulty.6. Soiled, as from soot; dirty: feet black from playing outdoors.7. Evil; wicked: the pirates' black deeds.8. Cheerless and depressing; gloomy: black thoughts.9. Being or characterized by morbid or grimly satiric humor: a black comedy.10. Marked by anger or sullenness: gave me a black look.11. Attended with disaster; calamitous: a black day; the stock market crash on Black Friday.12. Deserving of, indicating, or incurring censure or dishonor: "Man ... has written one of his blackest records as a destroyer on the oceanic islands" (Rachel Carson).13. Wearing clothing of the darkest visual hue: the black knight.14. Served without milk or cream: black coffee.15. Appearing to emanate from a source other than the actual point of origin. Used chiefly of intelligence operations: black propaganda; black radio transmissions.16. Disclosed, for reasons of security, only to an extremely limited number of authorized persons; very highly classified: black programs in the Defense Department; the Pentagon's black budget.17. Chiefly British Boycotted as part of a labor union action.n.1. a. The achromatic color value of minimum lightness or maximum darkness; the color of objects that absorb nearly all light of all visible wavelengths; one extreme of the neutral gray series, the opposite being white. Although strictly a response to zero stimulation of the retina, the perception of black appears to depend on contrast with surrounding color stimuli.b. A pigment or dye having this color value.2. Complete or almost complete absence of light; darkness.3. Clothing of the darkest hue, especially such clothing worn for mourning.4. also Blacka. A member of a racial group having brown to black skin, especially one of African origin.b. An American descended from peoples of African origin having brown to black skin; an African American.5. Something that is colored black.6. Games a. The black-colored pieces, as in chess or checkers.b. The player using these pieces.7. The condition of making or operating at a profit: worked hard to get the business back into the black.v. blacked, black·ing, blacks v.tr.1. To make black: blacked their faces with charcoal.2. To apply blacking to: blacked the stove.3. Chiefly British To boycott as part of a labor union action.v.intr. To become black.Phrasal Verb: black out1. To lose consciousness or memory temporarily: blacked out at the podium.2. To suppress (a fact or memory, for example) from conscious recognition: blacked out many of my wartime experiences.3. To cover or make illegible with black marking: The names in the document had been blacked out.4. To prohibit the dissemination of, especially by censorship: blacked out the news issuing from the rebel provinces.5. To extinguish or conceal all lights that might help enemy aircraft find a target during an air raid.6. To extinguish all the lights on (a stage).7. To cause a failure of electrical power in: Storm damage blacked out much of the region.8. To suppress the broadcast of (an event or program) from an area: blacked out the football game on local TV stations.

[Middle English blak, from Old English blæc; see bhel- in Indo-European roots.]

black′ish adj.black′ly adv.black′ness n.

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Verb	1.	black out - obliterate or extinguish; "Some life-forms were obliterated by the radiation, others survived"blow out, extinguish, quench, snuff out - put out, as of fires, flames, or lights; "Too big to be extinguished at once, the forest fires at best could be contained"; "quench the flames"; "snuff out the candles"
	2.	black out - darken completely; "The dining room blackened out"blacken outdarken - become dark or darker; "The sky darkened"
	3.	black out - suppress by censorship as for political reasons; "parts of the newspaper article were blacked out"edit, redact - prepare for publication or presentation by correcting, revising, or adapting; "Edit a book on lexical semantics"; "she edited the letters of the politician so as to omit the most personal passages"
	4.	black out - lose consciousness due to a sudden trauma, for examplezonk out, pass outfaint, pass out, swoon, conk - pass out from weakness, physical or emotional distress due to a loss of blood supply to the brainchange state, turn - undergo a transformation or a change of position or action; "We turned from Socialism to Capitalism"; "The people turned against the President when he stole the election"

black

adjective1. Of the darkest achromatic visual value:ebon, ebony, inky, jet, jetty, onyx, pitch-black, pitchy, sable, sooty.2. Having little or no light:dark, pitch-dark.3. Covered or stained with or as if with dirt or other impurities:dirty, filthy, grimy, grubby, smutty, soiled, unclean, uncleanly.4. Morally objectionable:bad, evil, immoral, iniquitous, peccant, reprobate, sinful, vicious, wicked, wrong.5. Dark and depressing:bleak, blue, cheerless, dark, desolate, dismal, dreary, gloomy, glum, joyless, somber, tenebrific.6. Characterized by intense ill will or spite:despiteful, evil, hateful, malevolent, malicious, malign, malignant, mean, nasty, poisonous, spiteful, venomous, vicious, wicked.Slang: bitchy.verbTo make dirty:befoul, begrime, besmirch, besoil, blacken, defile, dirty, smudge, smutch, soil, sully.phrasal verb
black out1. To suffer temporary lack of consciousness:faint, keel over, pass out, swoon.2. To keep from being published or transmitted:ban, censor, hush (up), stifle, suppress.Idiom: keep a lid on.

Translations

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(blӕk) adjective1. of the colour in which these words are printed. black paint.黑色的2. without light. a black night; The night was black and starless.黑暗的3. dirty. Your hands are black!; black hands from lifting coal.弄脏的4. without milk. black coffee.不加奶的5. evil. black magic.邪恶的6. (often offensive. currently acceptable in the United States, South Africa etc) Negro, of African, West Indian descent. （贬意）黑人的 7. (especially South Africa) coloured; of mixed descent (increasingly used by people of mixed descent to refer to themselves). （尤在南非）有色的（人种） noun1. the colour in which these words are printed. Black and white are opposites.黑色2. something (eg paint) black in colour. I've used up all the black.黑颜料3. (often with capital. often offensive: currently acceptable in the United states, South Africa etc) a Negro; a person of African, West Indian etc descent.黑人 verb to make black. 变黑ˈblackness noun 黑色，黑暗 ˈblacken verb1. to make or become black. The sky blackened before the storm. 使变黑，把…弄黑 2. to make to seem bad. She blackened his character.诋毁3. to clean with black polish. He blackened his boots. 用黑鞋油刷亮（鞋靴） black art/magic magic performed for evil reasons. He tries to practise black magic.妖术ˈblackbird noun a dark-coloured bird of the thrush family. 画眉，燕八哥 ˈblackboard noun a dark-coloured board for writing on in chalk (used especially in schools). 黑板black box a built-in machine for automatic recording of the details of a plane's flight. They found the black box two miles away from the wreckage of the crashed plane. 黑匣子（装配在飞机上的电子自动记录仪器） the Black Death noun the plague that killed large numbers of people in Europe in the 14th to 18th centuries. 黑死病black eye an eye with bad bruising around it (eg from a punch). George gave me a black eye.发青的眼圈ˈblackhead noun a small black-topped lump in a pore of the skin, especially of the face. 黑头粉刺ˈblacklist noun a list of people who are out of favour etc. 黑名单 verb to put (a person etc) on such a list. 把 ... 列入黑名单ˈblackmail verb to obtain money illegally from (a person), usually by threatening to make known something which the victim wants to keep secret. 勒索 noun the act of blackmailing. money got by blackmail. 勒索，敲诈 ˈblackmailer noun 勒索者，敲诈者 Black Maria (məˈraiə) a prison van. The policeman took the three suspects to the police station in a Black Maria.囚车black market (a place for) the illegal buying and selling, at high prices, of goods that are scarce, rationed etc. coffee on the black market.黑市black marketeer a person who sells goods on the black market. 黑市商人ˈblackout noun1. a period of darkness produced by putting out all lights. Accidents increase during a blackout. 停电，断电 2. a ban (on news etc). a blackout of news about the coup. （新闻的）封锁 3. a period of unconsciousness. He has had several blackouts during his illness.暂时的意识丧失4. a brief, temporary loss of memory, as when an actor forgets his/her lines. 暂时失去记忆5. (also outage) a period of a general power failure. 停电期间6. (in the theatre) the putting out of the stage lights at the end of a scene etc. （剧院）剧终熄灯 black sheep a member of a family or group who is unsatisfactory in some way. My brother is the black sheep of the family. 害群之马，败家子 ˈblacksmith noun a person who makes and repairs by hand things made of iron. The blacksmith made a new shoe for the horse.铁匠black and blue badly bruised. After the fight the boy was all black and blue. （被打的）遍体鳞伤，青一快紫一块 black out to lose consciousness. He blacked out for almost a minute.失去知觉in black and white in writing or print. Would you put that down in black and white? 写出，印出

black out

1. verb To lose consciousness. My blood sugar dropped so low during the meeting that I blacked out and woke up on the floor.2. verb To experience a period of time about which one does not remember anything, despite having been fully conscious at the time (as during a stressful or traumatic event.) It's like I blacked out during the interview—I don't remember anything I said!3. verb To avoid thinking about or remembering something, often because it is stressful or traumatic. Many trauma victims try to black out the horrific things that have happened to them.4. verb To prevent something from being broadcast or disseminated, usually in a specific geographic area. Ugh, the game must be blacked out tonight. Is it on any other channel? The dictator has blacked out news from the rest of the world.5. verb To cover something (usually with black lines or blocks) so that it cannot be seen or read. Be sure to black out all the other names on this list before you put it in the employee's file. The newspaper blacked out part of the photograph.6. noun An episode of unconsciousness. Often written as one word ("blackout"). My blood sugar dropped so low that I had a blackout during the meeting and woke up on the floor.7. noun A period of literal darkness caused by the loss of electricity, as during a storm. Often written as one word ("blackout"). We read by candlelight to pass the time during the blackout.8. adjective slang Extremely drunk, often to the eventual point of unconsciousness. Often written as one word ("blackout"). He was blackout last night, so I'm not surprised that he doesn't remember talking to you.See also: black, out

black something out

1. Lit. to cut or turn out the lights or electric power. The lightning strike blacked the entire town out. The manager blacked out the whole building during the emergency to prevent an explosion. 2. Fig. to prevent the broadcast of a specific television or radio program in a specific area. Will they black the game out around here? They blacked out the basketball game in this area.See also: black, out

black out

1. Lit. [for lights] to go out. Suddenly the lights blacked out. The power went dead and everything blacked out from the heat. 2. Fig. to pass out; to become unconscious. After I fell, I must have blacked out. I think I am going to black out.See also: black, out

black out

1. Obliterate with black, as in crossing out words on a page or print on a screen. For example, They have blacked out all the obscene words in the subtitles to make this movie suitable for youngsters . This usage may be derived from an earlier meaning, "to stain or defame," which dates from the 15th century (and probably alludes to "blackening" a person's reputation). [Mid-1800s] 2. Extinguish all lights. For example, The whole town was asleep, as blacked out as London during the war. In the early 1900s this expression alluded to the lights in a theater, but from about 1940 on it meant darkening an entire city to hide it from enemy bombers. 3. Lose consciousness, faint; also, experience a temporary loss of memory. For example, I couldn't remember a single note of the music; I blacked out completely, or The accused man claims he blacked out after his first drink. This usage is thought to have originated with pilots, who sometimes fainted briefly when pulling out of a power dive. It soon was transferred to other losses of consciousness or memory. [c. 1940] See also: black, out

black out

v.1. To stop emitting light; go out: The traffic lights blacked out when the storm knocked down power lines.2. To cause a failure of electrical power in some region: The strong winds blacked out much of the city.3. To lose consciousness or memory temporarily: The patient felt very dizzy and blacked out for a few minutes.4. To suppress some memory from the conscious mind: The refugees blacked out their wartime experiences.5. To prohibit the broadcast or spread of something, especially by censorship: The government blacked out the news that was broadcast from enemy radio stations.See also: black, out

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verb obliterate or extinguish

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verb darken completely

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verb suppress by censorship as for political reasons

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verb lose consciousness due to a sudden trauma, for example

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