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go blank

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go blank also blank out
1. to forget He let his mind go blank and kept on walking, thinking about nothing at all.
2. to become unconscious He remembers trying to get up, and then he went blank until he woke up the next morning with a roaring headache.
Usage notes: sometimes used in the form everything went blank (someone became unconscious): I heard a noise behind me, and then everything went blank.
Related vocabulary: black out
3. to stop receiving a television picture There was a popping sound, and then the TV screen went blank.
See also: blank


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As the films vary in length, from 194 minutes (Titanic, Number I) to 88 minutes (The Lion King, Number 6), nearly all the quadrants go blank (and silent) before the piece ends, at 140 minutes.
``One minute they're very open and emotional, the next minute their face might go blank,'' said Rob Wingate, a member of the Red Cross Aviation Incident response team who spoke with family members of victims at a hotel near Los Angeles International Airport.
This holiday season, millions of Americans will receive software, peripherals and other computer-related gifts -- unfortunately, millions will be disappointed as their systems crash, programs don't work, and screens go blank.
 
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