Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb blank_out
2 senses of blank out
Sense 1
forget, block, blank out, draw a blank -- (be unable to remember; "I'm drawing a blank"; "You are blocking the name of your first wife!")
Sense 2
blank out -- (cut out, as for political reasons; "several line in the report were blanked out")
=> edit, redact -- (prepare for publication or presentation by correcting, revising, or adapting; "Edit a book on lexical semantics"; "she edited the letters of the politician so as to omit the most personal passages")