blacks out
Suddenly loses awareness
Blacks out has two main senses.
To black out is to lose consciousness temporarily: She blacked out from the heat.
It also means to suppress or obscure information: The government blacked out sections of the report.
During wartime, cities blacked out by extinguishing lights to avoid being visible to enemy aircraft.
- faintsBriefly loses consciousness
- collapsesSuddenly falls inward
- swoonsFaints from emotion
- fallDescend under gravity
- dropFall or release
fugue state · concussion · redaction · hypoxia · limp · goes dark · censorship · dizziness · blank · narcolepsy · radio silence · seizure · amnesia · memory gap · vertigo · syncope · blur · power outage
- falling asleepfell asleep, dozes, dozed off, nods off, nodded off