if you blank out a feeling, memory, warning etc, you deliberately try not to think about it or try to forget it
same as blank
to hide or cover something so that you cannot see it
I don’t know what happened – I just blanked out.
Some of the words had been blanked out.
The experience was so terrible he just blanked it out.
blanks out
blanking out
blanked out
There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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