"zone out" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: zones out [present, singular, third-person], zoning out [participle, present], zoned out [participle, past], zoned out [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} zone out (third-person singular simple present zones out, present participle zoning out, simple past and past participle zoned out)
  1. (informal, intransitive) To stop paying attention and think about something else, or to think about nothing Tags: informal, intransitive Synonyms: tune out, space out, zone off Translations (stop paying attention): 走神 (zǒushén) (Chinese Mandarin), falde i staver (Danish), keskittyä muuhun (english: to concentrate on other things) (Finnish), sulkea mielestään (english: to close out of one's mind) (Finnish), abdriften (German), bambul (Hungarian), elbambul (Hungarian), błądzić myślami [imperfective] (Polish), ignorar (Portuguese), zona ut (Swedish)

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for zone out meaning in English (2.5kB)

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      "sense": "stop paying attention",
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