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Blank out

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Verb
  1. 1
    To become blank. idiomatic, intransitive

    "He removed the paper from the heat, and the paper blanked out."

  2. 2
    cut out, as for political reasons wordnet
  3. 3
    To become blank.; To temporarily lose memory. idiomatic, intransitive

    "He blanked out five minutes into the meeting."

  4. 4
    be unable to remember wordnet
  5. 5
    To cause (something) to become blank.; To erase (something), leaving a blank in its place. transitive

    "The teacher blanked out some words from the text, which the students had to fill in."

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  1. 6
    To cause (something) to become blank.; To erase from one's memory. transitive

    "He blanked out the abuse he had suffered as a child."

  2. 7
    To get even; to neutralise. idiomatic, transitive

    "Beckham's second-half goal blanked out Filippi's first-half header to put the score at 1-1."

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