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black something out1Extinguish all lights or completely cover windows, especially for protection against an air attack: the bombers began to come nightly and the city was blacked out (as adjective blacked out) a stretch limo with blacked-out windows...- She did not have to worry about someone seeing the lights from outside because the windows were blacked out.
- The floodlights will be switched on for afternoon games and the dressing-room windows will be blacked out as his team launch a desperate attempt to avoid relegation.
- The windows have been blacked out and in place of the flimsy trade-show stands we have modular screens, creating the feeling of separate rooms.
Synonyms darken, make dark/darker, shade, turn off the lights in; keep the light out of 1.1Subject a place to an electricity failure: Chicago was blacked out yesterday after a freak flood...- His readers learnt that when gigantic portraits of Stalin were illuminated by electricity entire apartment blocks were blacked out.
- At midnight, all the city is blacked out, but the giant bronze statue on Chanamsan Hill remains illuminated brilliantly with a spotlight.
- Then all the lights went out and the building was blacked out.
2Obscure something completely so that it cannot be read or seen: the number plate had been blacked out with masking tape...- The draft report on the wrongful detention of the resident can't be read in it's entirety because sections have been blacked out.
- The website set up by the company is still online but the freephone number has been blacked out.
- We can only tell that the informant was a women because there's a 3 letter pronoun that's often mentioned and they black it out and of course if it's a 3 letter pronoun it's a she.
2.1(Of a television company) decide not to broadcast a disputed or controversial programme: they blacked out the women’s final...- One web site apparently blocked commentary and a broadcast on the assault was blacked out.
- Although a well-attended press conference took place with reporters from both the American and international press corps, it was blacked out by the US news media.
- Local games were blacked out by the NFL at the time.
Synonyms censor, suppress, redact, withhold, cover up, hide, conceal, obscure, veil, draw/pull a veil over, hush up, sweep under the carpet, whitewash See parent entry: black |