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block out en · VERB

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. (transitive) to prevent from entering or penetrating.
    • First Class has curtains throughout, and they are sturdy, dark and block out the light very well. 2019 October 23, Pip Dunn, “The next king of Scotland”, in Rail, page 51:
    • High-factor suncream blocks out the sun's rays.
  2. (idiomatic, transitive) to prevent (a thought) from entering one's mind.
    • Wow, way to go, baby! I gotta block out how much better you are than me... 2004, Intelligent Systems, translated by Nintendo of America, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Nintendo, GameCube, level/area: Glitzville:
    • After finding out she had terminal cancer, she tried to block out any thoughts of her own mortality.
  3. (transitive) to cover something, so as to make it impossible to see.
  4. (transitive) to begin to reduce to shape; to mark out roughly; to lay out.
    • to block out a plan

Forms

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blocks out Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
blocked out Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
blocked out Tense=Past lexicographic
blocking out Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic

Coordinates

lock out · black out