black out
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
obliterate or extinguish
Some life-forms were obliterated by the radiation, others survived
Types & categories
- quench hypernym
Sense 2 verb
darken completely
The dining room blackened out
Types & categories
- darken hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 3 verb
suppress by censorship as for political reasons
parts of the newspaper article were blacked out
Types & categories
- edit hypernym
Related & opposite
- blackout derivation
Sense 4 verb
lose consciousness due to a sudden trauma, for example
Types & categories
- change state hypernym
- faint hyponym
Related & opposite
- blackout derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | quench |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | blackout |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | brownout |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | darken |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | blackout |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | edit |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | blackout |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | change state |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | faint |