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blanking on

blanking on is the present participle and gerund of blank on.

Meaning of blank on

Verb

blank on (third-person singular simple present blanks on, present participle blanking on, simple past and past participle blanked on)

  1. (informal, transitive) To be temporarily unable to remember (a particular fact).
    • I’m blanking on her name right now.
    Synonyms:
    freeze on, freeze up on

Questions about blanking on

What is blanking on the present participle and gerund of?
Blanking on is the present participle and gerund of blank on.

Words near blanking on in the dictionary

  1. blankholder
  2. blankholders
  3. blankie
  4. blankies
  5. blanking
  6. blanking on
  7. blanking out
  8. blankings
  9. Blankinship
  10. Blankinships
  11. blankish

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Adapted from Wiktionary: blanking on (page history and authors); blank on (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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