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Block out

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    to prevent from entering or penetrating. transitive

    "High-factor suncream blocks out the sun's rays."

  2. 2
    plan where and when songs should be inserted into a theatrical production, or plan a theatrical production in general wordnet
  3. 3
    to prevent (a thought) from entering one's mind. idiomatic, transitive

    "After finding out she had terminal cancer, she tried to block out any thoughts of her own mortality."

  4. 4
    indicate roughly wordnet
  5. 5
    to cover something, so as to make it impossible to see. transitive
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  1. 6
    shield from light wordnet
  2. 7
    to begin to reduce to shape; to mark out roughly; to lay out. transitive

    "to block out a plan"

  3. 8
    prevent from entering wordnet

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