block out (English, verb)
expansion: block out (third-person singular simple present blocks out, present participle blocking out, simple past and past participle blocked out)
Senses:
glosses: to prevent from entering or penetrating.
tags: transitive
glosses: to prevent (a thought) from entering one's mind.
tags: idiomatic
transitive
glosses: to cover something, so as to make it impossible to see.
tags: transitive
glosses: to begin to reduce to shape; to mark out roughly; to lay out.
tags: transitive
Forms:
form: blocks out
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: blocking out
tags: participle
present
form: blocked out
tags: participle
past
form: blocked out
tags: past