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Block out   /blɑk aʊt/   Listen
Block out

verb
1.
Plan where and when songs should be inserted into a theatrical production, or plan a theatrical production in general.
2.
Prevent from entering.  Synonym: screen.
3.
Shield from light.  Synonym: mask.
4.
Indicate roughly.






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"Block out" Quotes from Famous Books



... only his old chums, or them ez like to be thought so, that he's peppery with. Why, ez to that, after he'd had that quo'll with his old partner, Judge Pratt, in one o' them spells, I saw him the next minit go half a block out of his way to direct an entire stranger; and ez for wimmin!—well, I reckon if he'd just got a head drawn on a man, and a woman spoke to him, he'd drop his battery and take off his hat to her. ...
— Trent's Trust and Other Stories • Bret Harte

... clear, to see to read for an hour before and an hour after midday. Then there is the light given by the moon and stars, and lastly the cheering glow of the aurora borealis,or northern lights. It is not, therefore, always dark, though when snow falls or the clouds block out the sky the darkness becomes intense. At such times the picture is truly ...
— Peeps at Many Lands: Norway • A.F. Mockler-Ferryman

... they talked still farther about the unhappy case, "how much easier is prevention than cure! How much easier to keep a stumbling-block out of another's way than to set him on his feet after he has fallen! ...
— Danger - or Wounded in the House of a Friend • T. S. Arthur

... an hour after midday. Then there is the light given by the moon and stars, and lastly the cheering glow of the aurora borealis,or northern lights. It is not, therefore, always dark, though when snow falls or the clouds block out the sky the darkness becomes intense. At such times the picture is truly a ...
— Peeps at Many Lands: Norway • A.F. Mockler-Ferryman

... brick," said Malipieri. "It is just what I expected. This is part of the wall of an old Roman building, built of bricks and faced with travertine. If we can get this block out, the worst ...
— The Heart of Rome • Francis Marion Crawford



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