Synonyms for blackout
ˈblækˌaʊtblack·out

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1. blackoutnoun

   Temporary loss of consciousness or memory.

   Synonyms:
   pass out

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. blackoutnoun

   a suspension of radio or tv broadcasting

   Synonyms:
   brownout, amnesia, memory loss, dimout

2. blackout, brownout, dimoutnoun

   darkness resulting from the extinction of lights (as in a city invisible to enemy aircraft)

   Synonyms:
   brownout, amnesia, memory loss, dimout

3. blackoutnoun

   the failure of electric power for a general region

   Synonyms:
   brownout, amnesia, memory loss, dimout

4. blackoutnoun

   a momentary loss of consciousness

   Synonyms:
   brownout, amnesia, memory loss, dimout

5. amnesia, memory loss, blackoutnoun

   partial or total loss of memory

   "he has a total blackout for events of the evening"

   Synonyms:
   brownout, memory loss, amnesia, dimout

Matched Categories

1. • Cognitive State
   • Pause
   • Power Failure
   • Unconsciousness

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1. List of paraphrases for "blackout":

   outage, interruption, interrupt, disruption, adjournment, break, trap, interrupted, switch-off, interdiction

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How to use blackout in a sentence?

1. Ron Robinson:

   While conservatives won the national elections by a wide margin, campuses have doubled down on liberal speakers--with zero elected conservative officials scheduled to speak at our nation's top schools. our 2015 survey shows the conservative blackout on college campuses has only gotten worse.

2. Bhanu Chandar:

   Until today, we haven’t received a single circular or notice from the government on the dam. We have no idea when it will be built, how exactly we will be affected and where we are going to be relocated. There is a complete information blackout.

3. Trevor Houser:

   As we started looking at the scale of the blackout and try to put that in historical context, it became clear this was a record-breaking event and worthy of some attention and focus just from an electric standpoint.

4. Nelly Moreno:

   There was a six-hour blackout on the day the minister said that rationing was suspended!

5. Aaron White:

   Studies tell us at least half of young people who drink experience a blackout before they graduate college, what's really concerning is that, in a two-week period, about one in 10 college students who drink say there are parts of a night they don't remember.