black sth out
— phrasal verb with black uk/blæk/us/blæk/verb [ T ]
(COVER)
mainly UK to cover a face or a name so that it cannot be seen:
In the TV interview, they blacked out the victim's face.
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Hiding and disguising
- be holed up idiom
- bury
- camo
- camouflage
- cloak
- conceal
- concealment
- hit the deck idiom
- hole up (somewhere)
- illusion
- incognito
- infiltration
- obscure
- sidle
- skulk
- smokescreen
- snuck
- stash
- tuck
- veil
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(NO LIGHT)
to make a place dark, especially by covering or switching off all the lights:
The entire city was blacked out overnight.
See also
blackout
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Darkness & becoming dark
- black
- blackness
- blackout
- dark
- darken
- deepen
- dingy
- draw
- draw in
- dull
- half-light
- inky
- moonless
- pitch-dark
- shade
- shadowy
- shady
- silhouette
- Stygian
- the gloaming
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