black out

Questions about black out

What does black out mean?

black out means "obliterate or extinguish". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for black out?

Close synonyms include blacken out, zonk out, pass out. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is black out a common word?

black out is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.