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blank
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1540s, "to nonplus, disconcert, shut up;" 1560s, "to frustrate," from blank (adj.). Sports sense of "defeat (another team) without allowing a score" is from 1870. Meaning "to become blank or empty" is from 1955. Related: Blanked ; blanking .
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Blank is a 2009 French drama, written and directed by Cyril de Gasperis . Its original French title is L'absence .
Usage examples of blank.
Achamian simply stared in blank horror, an anguished pendulum slowly swinging to and fro, to and fro .
All annoyingly, tantalizingly out of reach, as though viewing a movie through a dense filter, a movie with long gaps of dark screen where her imagination filled in the blanks.
An alien overfullness of sensation paralyzes the nerves, suspends the autonomic processes, hollows out a blank between action and reaction.
Upon a blank sheet of paper, in a brilliant blue ink, the hand of The Shadow wrote the name of Josiah Bartram, as though linking it with past events.
The hand in her crotch began or resumed its motion before the picture blanked, revealing the original blue wall.
The wall blanked to green and remained in that state for many seconds.
A long time ago I learned to keep part of my mind blanked off under your probing.
Kelly stopped cold, realizing that the can screwed onto the barrel blanked out his sights.
There followed ritual courtesies, and the screen blanked which had shown Cajal.
If I say to you Wodget or Crump, you find yourself passing over the fact that these are nothings, these are, so to speak, mere blankety blanks, and trying to think what sort of thing a Wodget or a Crump may be.
Got a car outside and the sooner we get away from this blankety blank madhouse the better.
The trees at Tse Bonito Park were yellow, the roadsides were streaked with the purple of the last surviving October asters, and overhead the sky was the dark, blank blue.
Renovated Peabody Estate homes shared space with the blank brick walls of post-war brutalist office blocks.
The screen went blank, to be replaced an instant later by a holographic representation of a section of a magnificent bathroom.
Thrice the horologers have looked into the great crystal globe wherein are foretold all happenings to be, and thrice the globe was blank.