Antonyms for black out

Grammar : Verb

Spell : blak

Phonetic Transcription : blæk

Definition of black out

Origin : Old English blæc "dark," from Proto-Germanic *blakaz "burned" (cf. Old Norse blakkr "dark," Old High German blah "black," Swedish bläck "ink," Dutch blaken "to burn"), from PIE *bhleg- "to burn, gleam, shine, flash" (cf. Greek phlegein "to burn, scorch," Latin flagrare "to blaze, glow, burn"), from root *bhel- (1) "to shine, flash, burn;" see bleach (v.).
The same root produced Old English blac "bright, shining, glittering, pale;" the connecting notions being, perhaps, "fire" (bright) and "burned" (dark). The usual Old English word for "black" was sweart (see swart). According to OED: "In ME. it is often doubtful whether blac, blak, blake, means 'black, dark,' or 'pale, colourless, wan, livid.' " Used of dark-skinned people in Old English.
Of coffee, first attested 1796. Meaning "fierce, terrible, wicked" is late 14c. The color of sin and sorrow since at least c.1300; sense of "with dark purposes, malignant" emerged 1580s (e.g. black magic). Black face in reference to a performance style originated in U.S., is from 1868. Black flag, flown (especially by pirates) as a signal of "no mercy," from 1590s. Black dog "melancholy" attested from 1826. Black belt is from 1875 in reference to districts of the U.S. South with heaviest African population; 1870 with reference to fertility of soil; 1913 in judo sense. Black power is from 1966, associated with Stokely Carmichael.

verb lose consciousness
verb faint

Example sentences :

And if troubles had been black out West, they was black and blue in N'York!
Extract from : « Vision House » by C. N. Williamson

But there was no easing of the pain that threatened to make him black out at any second.
Extract from : « The Sky Is Falling » by Lester del Rey

When they reached that point, yelling, Barry raced his black out of range of all except the wildest chance shot.
Extract from : « The Seventh Man » by Max Brand

Take my penny an go buy an oyster,thatll help get the black out.
Extract from : « In Wild Rose Time » by Amanda M. Douglas

Then black out, and gallery green focus for dance, changing to ruby at cue, and white floods at chord off.
Extract from : « Nights in London » by Thomas Burke

A lumber boat, with two very tall masts, was emerging gaunt and black out of the fog.
Extract from : « Song of the Lark » by Willa Cather

The fire was black out, and the mill still grinding away at nothing in particular.
Extract from : « Cats » by W. Gordon Stables

The fire was black out, and somehow things wore a more cheerless look than I had expected to find.
Extract from : « Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1907 to 1908 » by Lucy Maud Montgomery

A stream of noxious vapor rushed out of the opening, causing him to black out.
Extract from : « The Blue Tower » by Evelyn E. Smith

Its bare walls rose gaunt and black out of the ground, not out of a heap of tumbled moss-grown masonry, or covered over with ivy.
Extract from : « Boycotted » by Talbot Baines Reed

Synonyms for black out

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