Definition of to black out in English Turkish dictionary
- karartma yapmak
- gözü kararmak
- hafıza kaybı
- (deyim) kendini kaybetmek
- bilinç kaybı
- karartma yapmak
- karartmak
- bayılmak
- {f} karartma yap
- geçici olarak şuurunu kaybetmek, gözü kararmak
- gözü kararmak; kısa bir süre için şuurunu kaybetmek
Definition of to black out in English English dictionary
- to censor or cover up by writing over with black ink
Seigel was able to send two post cards home in 44 months via the Red Cross. The first one was completely blacked out by the Japanese censor's pen. The second one he sent, Seigel wrote that he weighed his usual weight of 130. Seigel's usual weight was 230 so the family could see that he had been severely starved while in captivity. Seigel had at least triumphed over the Japanese censor and his black pen.
- To lose consciousness; to suffer a blackout
And they were not surprised when Tang Ya reeled into the mess, his face livid and drawn with pain. Rip and Dane got him to his cabin before he blacked out. But all they could learn from him during the interval before he lost consciousness was that his head was bursting and he couldn't stand it. Over his limp body they stared at one another bleakly.
- To make dark
The Venetian blinds and the drapes, she thought, would completely black out the room from the ocean side.
- to censor or cover up
I have blacked out your television, every station in the world is mine.
- lose consciousness, faint
- {f} lose consciousness; faint, temporarily lose consciousness; lose memory temporarily; suppress a memory from conscious acknowledgment; turn off all the lights on a stage; cause an electrical power failure; cover a part of writing with black color so it cannot be read; hold back information
- Also referred to as black patch; a piece of masking material which is used in layout to mask an area leaving a window into which another element can be stripped
- If you black out, you lose consciousness for a short time. Samadov said that he felt so ill that he blacked out. = pass out
- obliterate or extinguish; "Some life-forms were obliterated by the radiation, others survived
- obliterate or extinguish; "Some life-forms were obliterated by the radiation, others survived"
- {i} act of turning off all the lights; power failure; loss of consciousness
- If a place is blacked out, it is in darkness, usually because it has no electricity supply. Large parts of the capital were blacked out after electricity pylons were blown up
- If you black out a piece of writing, you colour over it in black so that it cannot be seen. U.S. government specialists went through each page, blacking out any information a foreign intelligence expert could use = censor
- suppress by censorship as for political reasons; "parts of the newspaper article were blacked out"
- lose consciousness due to a sudden trauma, for example
- darken completely; "The dining room blackened out"
- If you black out the memory of something, you try not to remember it because it upsets you. I tried not to think about it. I blacked it out. see also blackout = blot out
- If a film or a piece of writing is blacked out, it is prevented from being broadcast or published, usually because it contains information which is secret or offensive. TV pictures of the demonstration were blacked out. = censor