Definitions
partial or total loss of memory
Word origin
Deverbal from black out.
Used in a sentence
“The repairs at the Koeberg Power Station in the Western Cape were on schedule for completion in the third week of May. This follows huge blackouts related to the problems at the power supplier since November.”
“There have been several examples of space weather affecting power grids in the last few decades, notably blackouts caused by GICs [geomagnetically induced currents] in Canada in 1989 and Sweden in 2003.”
“media blackout”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Power failure”8 letters
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