blank out

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blank out

verb blanks out · blanking out · blanked out

idiomatic, intransitive To become blank. He removed the paper from the heat, and the paper blanked out.
idiomatic, intransitive To temporarily lose memory. He blanked out five minutes into the meeting.
transitive To erase (something), leaving a blank in its place. The teacher blanked out some words from the text, which the students had to fill in.
transitive To erase from one's memory. He blanked out the abuse he had suffered as a child.
idiomatic, transitive To get even; to neutralise. Beckham's second-half goal blanked out Filippi's first-half header to put the score at 1-1.

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@misc{blank_out_2026,
  title = {blank out},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/blank%20out},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}