Block out and Eclipse

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Block out verb - Prevent from entering.

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Eclipse and block out are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Eclipse" instead a verb "Block out".

Eclipse verb - To be greater, better, or stronger than.

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Block out and eclipse are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Block out" instead a verb "Eclipse".

Nearby Words: eclipsed, eclipsing

Darkwing attempts to use foreknowledge of an eclipse to terrify the locals by pretending to block out the sun, but the eclipse he's predicting doesn't occur until the day after he makes the threat, and so ends up stalling for 24 hours until his "magic" pays off.

Source: Total Eclipse of the Plot
Also, solar eclipses only completely block out the light in one relatively small area and the light reduction gets less pronounced the further away from the center of the eclipse, but in fiction tend to block out the sun completely wherever they happen to be.

Source: Total Eclipse of the Plot

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