blank
/blæŋk/ verb C2- To make void; to erase. · I blanked out my previous entry.
- To ignore (a person) deliberately. · She blanked me for no reason.
- To render ineffective by blanketing with turbulent airflow, such as from aircraft wake or reverse thrust. · At high angles of attack, the shuttle’s rudder is blanked by the fuselage and wings, forcing it to use its RCS thrusters for yaw control.
- To prevent from scoring; for example, in a sporting event. · The team was blanked.· England blanks Wales to advance to the final.
- To become blank.
- To experience a temporary lapse of memory; to be temporarily unable to remember a particular fact. (Commonly used in the first person, present progressive tense, and commonly followed by on to create a transitive phrasal verb.) · I’m blanking on her name right now.· She asked him a simple question during the interview, and he blanked.
He/she/it blanks · Past blanked · Past participle blanked · -ing form blanking
Verb forms
- Base form
- blank
- He/she/it
- blanks
- Past
- blanked
- Past participle
- blanked
- -ing form
- blanking
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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“I have to use this room as a place of business,” he said, “and these people are my clients.” Again I had an opportunity of asking him a point blank question, and again my delicacy prevented me from forcing another man to confide in me.
The latter looked out with three tiers of vacant melancholy windows, which were blank and dreary, save that here and there a “To Let” card had developed like a cataract upon the bleared panes.
“It could not have fallen from above, for these, as you see, are all blank walls.
A second was a bedroom, which also drew blank.
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