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Definition of Blank out

1. Verb. Be unable to remember. "They won't blank out the story "; "You are blocking the name of your first wife!"

2. Verb. Cut out, as for political reasons. "Several line in the report were blanked out"

Definition of Blank out

1. Verb. (intransitive idiomatic) To become blank. ¹

2. Verb. (transitive) To cause (something) to become blank. ¹

3. Verb. (idiomatic transitive) to set even, to neutralise ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Blank Out

blandness blandnesses blands blank blank canvas blank canvases blank check blank check company blank checks blank cheque

blank cheques blank end blank ends blank out (current term) blank shell blank space blank verse blankable blanked blanker

blankest blanket blanket(a) blanket-stitch blanket flower blanket insulation blanket jam blanket lien

Literary usage of Blank out

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Shop and Foundry Practice: Prepared for Students of the International by International Correspondence Schools (1901)
"A wedge can then be used for prying the blank out. For rapid work, it may be advisable to design some lever arrangement, operated by some moving part of the ..."

2. Eclipse & OK̓elly: Being a Complete History So Far as is Known of that by Theodore Andrea Cook (1907)
"10 A Bay Mare, got by Herod, her dam by Blank, out of the Withering- ton mare.—This mare is an own sister to the dam of Rosina, and was never trained. ..."

3. Printing for School and Shop: A Textbook for Printers' Apprentices by Frank Souder Henry (1917)
"Blank-out.—The blank part of the last page of a chapter. In the days of piecework, when type was mostly all set by hand, the compositor who got the last ..."

4. Punches, Dies and Tools for Manufacturing in Presses ...: A Cyclopaedia by Joseph Vincent Woodworth (1912)
"170, the large punch G will blank out and deposit a blank in the left of the two large holes in D. The small punch will pierce and the former ..."

5. The General Stud-book, Containing Pedigrees of Race Horses, &c. &c. from the (1891)
"Gaudy (sister to Chrysolite), by Blank, out of Blossom, ... in 1771, her dam, Folly, by Blank, out of sister to Regulus. ..."

6. Shop and Foundry Practice: Prepared for Students of the International by International Correspondence Schools (1901)
"A wedge can then be used for prying the blank out. For rapid work, it may be advisable to design some lever arrangement, operated by some moving part of the ..."

7. Eclipse & OK̓elly: Being a Complete History So Far as is Known of that by Theodore Andrea Cook (1907)
"10 A Bay Mare, got by Herod, her dam by Blank, out of the Withering- ton mare.—This mare is an own sister to the dam of Rosina, and was never trained. ..."

8. Printing for School and Shop: A Textbook for Printers' Apprentices by Frank Souder Henry (1917)
"Blank-out.—The blank part of the last page of a chapter. In the days of piecework, when type was mostly all set by hand, the compositor who got the last ..."

9. Punches, Dies and Tools for Manufacturing in Presses ...: A Cyclopaedia by Joseph Vincent Woodworth (1912)
"170, the large punch G will blank out and deposit a blank in the left of the two large holes in D. The small punch will pierce and the former ..."

10. The General Stud-book, Containing Pedigrees of Race Horses, &c. &c. from the (1891)
"Gaudy (sister to Chrysolite), by Blank, out of Blossom, ... in 1771, her dam, Folly, by Blank, out of sister to Regulus. ..."

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