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black out has 3 distinct synonyms spread across 2 of its 4 senses. Each sense below keeps its own list, because a synonym belongs to a meaning and not to a word: swapping one sense's substitute into another sense's sentence is how a thesaurus makes writing worse. WordNet records no antonym for it — antonymy is a relation between word forms rather than concepts, so it is deliberately sparse.
Counts are distinct word forms across every sense. A synonym that appears under three senses is counted once here and shown three times below, under each sense it belongs to.
obliterate or extinguish
“Some life-forms were obliterated by the radiation, others survived”
Synonyms, antonyms and the broader and narrower relations for black out come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Full sources and licences.
suppress by censorship as for political reasons
“parts of the newspaper article were blacked out”
lose consciousness due to a sudden trauma, for example