zone out

English

Alternative forms

• tune out
• space out
• zone off

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

Translations

stop paying attention

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 走神 (zh) (zǒushén)

• Danish: falde i staver
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• Finnish: keskittyä muuhun (to concentrate on other things), sulkea mielestään (to close out of one's mind)
• German: ausblenden (de)