white out

verb

1. intr to lose or lack daylight visibility owing to snow or fog
2. tr to create or leave white spaces in (printed or other matter)
3. tr to delete (typewritten words or characters) with a white correcting fluid

noun

1. an atmospheric condition consisting of loss of visibility and sense of distance and direction due to a uniform whiteness of a heavy cloud cover and snow-covered ground, which reflects almost all the light it receives

Example Sentences

Moving slowly and dinging our bells to prevent collisions, the spectral silhouette of the temple appeared like Brigadoon, and we sought refuge next to an ethereal flautist to wait out the white out.

From Los Angeles Times

We always feel when something's been whited out because someone didn't understand or translate the culture.

From Salon

Heine and his friend sculptor John Buckley built the great white out of fiberglass, then installed it on Aug. 9, the 41st anniversary of the day the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki.

From Seattle Times

STS causes the part of your brain that sympathizes with the misfortunes of others, if overexposed, to white out.

From Salon

In a flash of white out of the blue, a beluga whale has been seen at least six times around Puget Sound since Sunday, the first such sightings since 1940.

From Seattle Times