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blacked out
| Main Entry: |
black out
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| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | lose consciousness |
| Synonyms: | batten, conceal, cover up, cross out, cut off, darken, delete; cover, eclipse, eradicate, erase, extinguish, faint, go out like a light, hold back, keel over, make dark, obfuscate, pass out, quash, rub out, shade, smother, squash, squelch, stifle, suppress, swoon, zonk out |
| Antonyms: | add, pencil in, uncover |
| Main Entry: | out cold |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unconscious |
| Synonyms: | benumbed, blacked out, comatose, dead to the world, down for the count, drowsy, feeling no pain, flattened, in a trance, numb, on the canvas, out, out like a light, passed out, put away, senseless, zonked |
| Main Entry: | unconscious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not awake; out cold |
| Synonyms: | benumbed, blacked out, bombed, cold*, comatose, dead to the world, drowsy, entranced, feeling no pain, flattened, in a trance, inanimate, inert, insensate, insensible, knocked, lethargic, numb, on the canvas, out, out like a light, palsied, paralyzed, passed out, put away, raving, senseless, stunned, stupefied, swooning, torpid, tranced, zonked |
| Antonyms: | awake, aware, conscious |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | passed out |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unconscious |
| Synonyms: | anesthetized, asleep, blacked out, comatose, dead to the world, knocked out, out cold, out like a light |
| Main Entry: | cancel |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | call off; erase |
| Synonyms: | X-out, abolish, abort, abrogate, annul, ax, black out, blot out, break, break off, countermand, cross out, cut, deface, delete, destroy, do away with, do in, efface, eliminate, eradicate, expunge, finish off, go back on one's word, kill, obliterate, off*, omit, quash, remove, render invalid, repeal, repudiate, rescind, revoke, rub out, scratch out, scrub, sink*, smash, squash, stamp across, strike out, torpedo, total*, trash*, trim*, undo, wash out, wipe out, wipe slate clean, zap |
| Antonyms: | allow, approve, arrange, establish, permit, uphold |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | censor |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | forbid; ban; selectively remove |
| Synonyms: | abridge, black out, blacklist, bleach, bleep, blue-pencil, bowdlerize, clean up, conceal, control, cork, criticize, cut, decontaminate, delete, drop the iron curtain, edit, examine, excise, expurgate, exscind, inspect, launder, narrow, oversee, prevent publication, purge, purify, put the lid on, refuse transmission, repress, restrain, restrict, review, revile, sanitize, scissor out, squelch, sterilize, strike out, supervise communications, suppress, withhold |
| Notes: | to censor is to disallow portions or the entireties of books, plays, etc. on the grounds that they transgress propriety, 'to scrutinize, revise, or cut,' expurgate or suppress; to censure is to criticize vehemently or harshly, or condemn |
| Antonyms: | allow, approve, endorse, permit, sanction |
| Main Entry: | delete |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | erase, remove |
| Synonyms: | X-out, annul, black out, bleep, blot out, blue-pencil, cancel, clean, clean up, cross out, cut, cut out, decontaminate, destroy, drop, edit, efface, eliminate, exclude, expunge, obliterate, omit, pass up, rub, rub out, rule out, sanitize, snip, squash, squelch, sterilize, strike out, trim, wipe out |
| Antonyms: | add, put in |
| Main Entry: | erase |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | remove; rub out |
| Synonyms: | X-out, abolish, annul, black out, blank, blot, blue pencil, cancel, cross out, cut, cut out, delete, disannul, dispatch, efface, eliminate, excise, expunge, extirpate, gut, kill, launder, negate, nullify, obliterate, scratch out, stamp out, strike, strike out, take out, trim, wipe out, withdraw |
| Antonyms: | add, insert, put in |
| Main Entry: | excise |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | remove, delete |
| Synonyms: | X out, amputate, black out, blot out, blue pencil, cross out, cut, cut off, cut out, cut up, destroy, edit, elide, eradicate, erase, expunge, exscind, exsect, exterminate, extirpate, extract, gut, knock off, launder, lop off, resect, scissor out, scratch out, slash, stamp out, strike, trim, wipe out |
| Antonyms: | add, put in |
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