Block out

Verb

Definitionen

1.Verbto prevent from entering or penetrating.

"High-factor suncream blocks out the sun's rays."

2.Verbto prevent (a thought) from entering one's mind.

"After finding out she had terminal cancer, she tried to block out any thoughts of her own mortality."

3.Verbto cover something, so as to make it impossible to see.

4.Verbto begin to reduce to shape; to mark out roughly; to lay out.

"to block out a plan"

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