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blot out

verb as in eclipse

verb as in extinguish

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He's previously said that his earliest memory was "a massive ship at the end of my street, towering over the houses and blotting out the sun".

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Within three hours, black smoke billowing down from the hills blotted out the sun as locals fled, streets jammed with cars, and anxiety turned to flat-out panic.

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Foster lamented that the "dark cloud" that is Trump has blotted out what should be a moment "historic to women and girls" of the Harris candidacy.

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In a later bid to blot out those memories, the Yankees leveled that stadium and built another one across the street.

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Will it be a fiery landscape where sizzling sidewalks cause second-degree burns, wildfire smoke blots out the sun, and water flows only sometimes, and mostly not at all?

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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