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Blank   /blæŋk/   Listen
Blank

adjective
1.
(of a surface) not written or printed on.  Synonyms: clean, white.  "Fill in the blank spaces" , "A clean page" , "Wide white margins"
2.
Void of expression.  Synonym: vacuous.
3.
Not charged with a bullet.
noun
1.
A blank character used to separate successive words in writing or printing.  Synonym: space.
2.
A blank gap or missing part.  Synonym: lacuna.
3.
A piece of material ready to be made into something.
4.
A cartridge containing an explosive charge but no bullet.  Synonyms: blank shell, dummy.
verb
(past & past part. blanked; pres. part. blanking)
1.
Keep the opposing (baseball) team from winning.



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— Miss Caprice • St. George Rathborne
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— Alias The Lone Wolf • Louis Joseph Vance
... ever with a book in his hand. At one time, we numbered many members, and sisters and brothers all lived together; but we had a distaste for wholesome books. Among my brothers, some were partial to verses; others had a weakness for blank poetical compositions; and there were none of such works as the 'Western side-House,' and 'the Guitar,' even up to the hundred and one books of the 'Yan' authors, which they hadn't managed to get. These books they stealthily read behind ...
— Hung Lou Meng, Book II • Cao Xueqin
... obliged to interrupt herself to shake hands with Violet, who came in with her little brother and sister. Jem laughed at the blank look in ...
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... flesh, one should come here. Had the excruciating operation of embalming been performed upon live men and women, their poses could hardly have been more multifariously agonised; and an aesthete may speculate as to how far such objects offend, in expression of blank misery and horror, against the canons of what is held to be artistically desirable. The nearest approach to them in human craftsmanship, and as regards Auffassung, are perhaps some little Japanese wood-carvings whose ...
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