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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1. Juan Guaido:

   We all know who is responsible for the blackout - Maduro, we must accelerate the process to remove this corrupt and thieving regime.

2. John Lourenco:

   I'd like to offer my deepest apology to the family and lives that I affected on September 14 and 15 when I relapsed and went into a blackout for 30 hours, i thank the Lord nobody got hurt.

3. Jonathan Gibralter:

   In college, many times students drink in a way that most people don't comprehend. They drink to accomplish a goal called becoming blackout drunk, they don't know their own capacity, and oftentimes underage students get into situations where they find themselves in trouble and they don't even know how they got there.

4. Elliott Abrams:

   One of the things they are doing seems to be - and we've thought this from the very beginning - is helping the regime with the S-300 ground-air missile system, which apparently got all screwed up by the blackout.

5. 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.