blank out


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Related to blank out: allow for, roughshod, put back, liven up, space out
ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Verb1.blank out - be unable to rememberblank out - be unable to remember; "I'm drawing a blank"; "You are blocking the name of your first wife!"
draw a blank, forget, block
slip one's mind, slip - pass out of one's memory
2.blank out - cut out, as for political reasons; "several line in the report were blanked 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"
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Translations

w>blank out

vt sep feeling, thought etc → ausschalten
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