blanksomethingout
phrasal verbwithblankverbinformaluk/blæŋk/us/blæŋk/
(COVER)
tointentionallycoverover something that is written so that it cannot beread:
Some of thenamesin thereporthave been blanked out.
Deleting writing
- blank
- cross
- crosssomeone/somethingoff (something)
- crosssomethingout
- delete
- deletion
- edit
- editsomethingout
- efface
- erasable
- erase
- erasure
- rub
- rubsomethingout
- score
- scoresomethingout/through
- strike
- strikesomethingout/through
- X, x
(FORGET)
tostopyourselfthinkingabout amemorybecause it isunpleasantand you wouldprefernot torememberit:
There may be atraumaticincidentinyourpast that you have blanked out.
to forget something
- forgetI can't believe I've forgotten her birthday!
- slip your mindI meant to tell you that he'd phoned, but it completely slipped my mind.
- be on the tip of your tongueOh, what was that movie called? It's on the tip of my tongue.
- escape youThe name of her book escapes me at the moment.
- blank outThe dinner where he admitted the affair was so painful that I must have blanked it out.
Forgetting and forgetfulness
- absent-minded
- absent-mindedly
- absent-mindedness
- amnesia
- amnesiac
- anterograde
- blur
- bury
- erase
- featherbrained
- forget
- forget itidiom
- forgetful
- forgetfully
- radar
- remove
- retrograde
- retrograde amnesia
- rusty
- scatterbrained