to be in a semi unconscious state so as to not have any memory of a particular moment
usually it is a short span of time when a person only remembers everything going ‘black’, hence is referred to as blackout
to go in deep shock so as to no longer be in cognizance of the environment
darkness or faint
a failure of electrical power supply (blackout)
The child’s mother blacked out on seeing him at the hospital. Subsequently she had to be hospitalised too.
I had a black out at the party and do not remember him bringing me home.
My husband who is suffering from a dreadful disease occasionally has black out
From childhood, her daughter has frequent black outs. She is suffering from a neurological disorder.
I cannot have another black out. I want to stay awake through the procedure.
She blacked out immediately after learning about her father’s death.
We don’t the reason but the whole city facing the blackout.
There was a system malfunction which caused the blackout due to thunderstorm.
There is no origin for this idiom
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definition
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