blanking
Wiping completely clean
Blanking is forgetting or failing to recall something, especially suddenly or under pressure: I kept blanking on her name.
It also means ignoring someone deliberately, treating them as if they don't exist: She's been blanking me all week.
In manufacturing, blanking is cutting flat shapes from sheet metal.
To blank out is to lose awareness momentarily or to obscure something: The censor blanked out the profanity.
Failure to retain information
- blackoutComplete power loss
- lapseBrief failure or expiration
- gapUnfilled space between
- forgettingFailing to retain memories
spacing out · mental block · fugue · oblivion · zoning out · dissociation · absent-mindedness · losing track
Removal of content
- wipingRubbing to clean
- clearingTreeless space in forest
- erasingRemoving recorded marks
- expungingRemoving completely from existence
obliterating · removing · scrubbing · purging · effacing · redacting · whiting out · blotting out
Forceful foot motion
- punchingStriking with closed fist
- cuttingDividing via sharp edge
- dieStop being alive
- pressApply force downward
sheet-metal · forming · piercing · shearing · trimming · notching · fabrication · tooling
Unintended broadcast quiet
- silenceTotal lack of sound
- mutingSuppressing sound output
- beepingEmitting short tones
- censoringRemoving objectionable content
cutting out · dropout · bleep · overdubbing · redaction
Impeding forward progress
- inhibitingPreventing or slowing action
- repressingSubduing into unconsciousness
- stiflingOppressively hot and close
- smotheringDepriving of air
subduing · silencing · quelling · curbing · numbing · shutting out · tuning out · ignoring
forgetfulness
Failure to retain information
forgetting · spacing out · mental block · fugue · oblivion · zoning out · dissociation · absent-mindedness · losing track · amnesia
deletion
Removal of content
expunging · obliterating · removing · scrubbing · purging · effacing · redacting · whiting out · blotting out · crossing out
stamping
Forceful foot motion
press · sheet-metal · forming · piercing · shearing · trimming · notching · fabrication · tooling · die-cutting
dead air
Unintended broadcast quiet
censoring · cutting out · dropout · bleep · overdubbing · redaction
blocking
Impeding forward progress
- inhibitingPreventing or slowing action
- repressingSubduing into unconsciousness
- stiflingOppressively hot and close
smothering · subduing · silencing · quelling · curbing · numbing · shutting out · tuning out · ignoring · filtering
- awkward momentsoops, cringe, embarrassment, yikes, awkward
- cuttingslicing, slice, chopping, dice, dicing
- inattentiondistracted, spacing, absent-minded, distraction, obliviousness
- mental lapseslapse, forget, slip, misplace, overlook
- speechlessspeechless, mute, wordless, tongue-tied, dumbstruck
- metalworkingwelding, casting, forging, smithing, smelting
blankingremembering
Retaining past information
recalling · recollecting · retrieving · total recall · recollection
blankingfocusing
Concentrating on one point
concentrating · engaging · tuning in · paying attention · attentiveness
blankingacknowledging
Accepting as true
greeting · recognizing · engaging · noticing · waving
- blanking outSudden memory failure
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