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blocks out

blocks out is the third-person singular simple present indicative of block out.

Meaning of block out

Verb

block out (third-person singular simple present blocks out, present participle blocking out, simple past and past participle blocked out)

  1. (transitive) to prevent from entering or penetrating.
    • High-factor suncream blocks out the sun's rays.
  2. (idiomatic, transitive) to prevent (a thought) from entering one's mind.
    • After finding out she had terminal cancer, she tried to block out any thoughts of her own mortality.
  3. (transitive) to cover something, so as to make it impossible to see.
  4. (transitive) to begin to reduce to shape; to mark out roughly; to lay out.
    • to block out a plan

Questions about blocks out

What is blocks out the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Blocks out is the third-person singular simple present indicative of block out.

Words near blocks out in the dictionary

  1. blocks
  2. blocks and tackles
  3. blocks of chocolate
  4. blocks of flats
  5. blocks off
  6. blocks out
  7. blocks the box
  8. blocks up
  9. blockscape
  10. blockscapes
  11. blocksful

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Adapted from Wiktionary: blocks out (page history and authors); block out (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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