Usually means: Exclude something from attention, consideration.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. block out: Merriam-Webster
  2. block out: Collins English Dictionary
  3. block out: Vocabulary.com
  4. block out: Wiktionary
  5. block-out, block out: Dictionary.com
  6. Block Out (band), Block out: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. block out: Rhymezone
  8. block out: FreeDictionary.org
  9. block out: Mnemonic Dictionary
  10. block out: TheFreeDictionary.com
  11. block out: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. block-out, block out: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. block out: Legal dictionary
  2. block out: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. block out: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Block-out, block out: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. block out: Idioms

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Block out: Construction Glossary

Definitions from Wiktionary (block out)

verb:  (transitive) to prevent from entering or penetrating.
verb:  (idiomatic, transitive) to prevent (a thought) from entering one's mind.
verb:  (transitive) to cover something, so as to make it impossible to see.
verb:  (transitive) to begin to reduce to shape; to mark out roughly; to lay out.

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