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Blank Out

Definitions: Blank Out

Blank Out

Verb

1. Be unable to remember; "I'm drawing a blank"; "You are blocking the name of your first wife!".

2. Cut out (of newspapers), as for political reasons.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Blank Out

Synonyms: block (v), draw a blank (v), forget (v). (additional references)
Antonym: remember (v). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Blank Out

English words defined with "blank out": Skeleton bill. (references)
Specialty definitions using "blank out": automobile-spring repairerBELL MAKER, Busy Beaver, button cutter, BUTTON-CUTTING-MACHINE OPERATORELECTRICAL AND RADIO MOCK-UP MECHANICFISHING-LURE ASSEMBLER, FLATWARE MAKERGLASS CUTTER, HAND, GROOVER AND TURNERRING STAMPER, ring strikerSPRING REPAIRER, HAND. (references)

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Modern Translations: Blank Out

Language Translations for "blank out"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Turkish

  

kaldırmak (abolish, arouse, blue pencil, boost, Brook, cancel, carry, clear, clear away, deration, do away with, elevate, erect, get up, give smb. a lift, heave, heft, hoist, hold, hold up, Jack, jack up, lift, lift up, move away, perk, perk up, pick off, pick up, poise, pull up, put aside, put away, put by, put up, quash, raise, reap, rear, receive, remove, scoop up, setaside, take off, take up, turn up, upheave, uphold, upraise), iptal etmek (abolish, abort, abrogate, annihilate, annul, avoid, call off, cancel, countermand, declare off, disaffirm, disallow, invalidate, irritate, negate, nullify, overrule, quash, remit, repeal, rescind, reverse, revoke, scrub, set aside, setaside, stultify, suspend, vacate, void, wash out, write off). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Blank Out

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-k-l-n-o-t-u"

-1 letter: butanol.

-2 letters: unbolt.

-3 letters: about, baton, baulk, blank, bloat, blunt, bunko, knout, notal, tabun, talon, taluk, tolan, tonal, tubal.

-4 letters: abut, alto, aunt, auto, balk, bank, blat, blot, boat, bola, bolt, bonk, bota, bout, bulk, bunk, bunt, kaon, knob, knot, koan, kola, kuna, lank, loan, lota, lout, luna, lunk, lunt, nota, tabu, talk, tank.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-k-l-n-o-t-u"
 

+5 letters: troublemaking, unknowability, unworkability.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Blank Out


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 6C 61 6E 6B      4F 75 74

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01101100 01100001 01101110 01101011 00100000 01001111 01110101 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#108 &#97 &#110 &#107 &#32 &#79 &#117 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 006C 0061 006E 006B      004F 0075 0074

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

36786780772498786

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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