blank
/blæŋk/ verbe C2En français : effacer, annuler, blancoter
- 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 · Prétérit blanked · Participe passé blanked · Forme en -ing blanking
Formes du verbe
- Forme de base
- blank
- He/she/it
- blanks
- Prétérit
- blanked
- Participe passé
- blanked
- Forme en -ing
- blanking
Verbes à particule et expressions
Dans la bibliothèque
If you examine this scrap with attention you will come to the conclusion that the man with the stronger hand wrote all his words first, leaving blanks for the other to fill up.
These blanks were not always sufficient, and you can see that the second man had a squeeze to fit his ‘quarter’ in between the ‘at’ and the ‘to,’ showing that the latter were already written.
The detective stared at the newcomer with blank amazement.
“I have had a blank day, Watson.
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