black out
• experience a sudden and temporary loss of consciousness.
• "she felt dizzy and almost blacked out"
Similar:
faint,
lose consciousness,
pass out,
collapse,
keel over,
flake out,
conk out,
go out,
swoon,
• cause the lights in a place to be extinguished, typically as a result of a failure in the electricity supply.
• "hundreds of homes remain without power since heavy snow blacked out the whole island"
• obscure something completely so that it cannot be read or seen.
• "the number plate had been blacked out with masking tape"
blackout
noun
• a period when all lights must be turned out or covered to prevent them being seen by the enemy during an air raid.
• "people found it difficult to travel in the blackout"
• a temporary loss of consciousness.
• "she was suffering from blackouts"
