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BLANK OUT
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Cut out, as for political reasons
Example:
several line in the report were blanked out
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "blank out" is one way to...):
edit; redact (prepare for publication or presentation by correcting, revising, or adapting)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sense 2
Meaning:
Be unable to remember
Example:
You are blocking the name of your first wife!
Synonyms:
blank out; block; draw a blank; forget
Classified under:
Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "blank out"):
slip; slip one's mind (pass out of one's memory)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
