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blot
1[ blot ]
noun
- a spot or stain, especially of ink on paper.
Synonyms: blotch
- a blemish on a person's character or reputation:
He had been haunted by a blot on his past.
- Archaic. an erasure or obliteration, as in a writing.
verb (used with object)
- to spot, stain, soil, or the like.
- to darken; make dim; obscure or eclipse (usually followed by out ):
We watched as the moon blotted out the sun.
Synonyms: expunge, erase, efface, obliterate
- to dry with absorbent paper or the like:
to blot the wet pane.
- to remove with absorbent paper or the like.
Synonyms: absorb
verb (used without object)
- to make a blot; spread ink, dye, etc., in a stain:
The more slowly I write, the more this pen blots.
- to become blotted or stained:
This paper blots too easily.
- Chemistry. to transfer an array of separated components of a mixture to a chemically treated paper for analysis. Compare gel ( def 4 ), gel electrophoresis ( def ).
verb phrase
- to make indistinguishable; obliterate:
to blot out a name from the record.
- to wipe out completely; destroy:
Whole cities were blotted out by bombs.
blot
2[ blot ]
noun
- Backgammon. an exposed piece liable to be taken or forfeited.
- Archaic. an exposed or weak point, as in an argument or course of action.
blot
1/ blɒt /
noun
- a stain or spot of ink, paint, dirt, etc
- something that spoils or detracts from the beauty or worth of something
- a blemish or stain on one's character or reputation
verb
- (of ink, dye, etc) to form spots or blobs on (a material) or (of a person) to cause such spots or blobs to form on (a material)
- blot one's copybook informal.to spoil one's reputation by making a mistake, offending against social customs, etc
- intr to stain or become stained or spotted
- tr to cause a blemish in or on; disgrace
- to soak up (excess ink, etc) by using blotting paper or some other absorbent material
- (of blotting paper or some other absorbent material) to absorb (excess ink, etc)
- troften foll byout
- to darken or hide completely; obscure; obliterate
- to destroy; annihilate
blot
2/ blɒt /
noun
- backgammon a man exposed by being placed alone on a point and therefore able to be taken by the other player
- archaic.a weak spot
Other Words From
- blotless adjective
- blotting·ly adverb
- blotty adjective
- un·blotted adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of blot1
Origin of blot2
Word History and Origins
Origin of blot1
Origin of blot2
Example Sentences
Here’s the nutshell bio that Gary sent me last night — after I discovered that he’d gotten that 500th blot of ink.
Like a catalogue of Rorschach ink blots, his oeuvre generates orgies of idle speculation and elaborate projection.
Back in 2015, the Empress ran a contest that Loser William Verkuilen remembers fondly, having gotten a couple of blots of ink out of it in Week 1155.
It’s the fifth Style Invitational win — and 382nd blot in all — for Dave Prevar, but it’s his first Clowning Achievement trophy.
There’s one subset of Novel Interpretations of our Staake contest that’s unlikely ever to win the whole thing, but almost always results in a blot of ink for one or two Losers.
Like Amalek, the Biblical evil-doer whose name we are enjoined to “blot out.”
But we must remember not only to not forget, but to blot out the enemy—not mercifully, but through genocide.
The scandal was “a serious blot on my reputation,” he complained to Leveson.
Think of its twisted outline as a Rorschach blot for a society—maybe a civilization.
The speech did irreparable damage to Powell's reputation, and he has since called it "a blot on his record."
I am, I am he that blot out thy iniquities for my own sake, and I will not remember thy sins.
It needs better evidence to stamp this solitary suggestion of a blot on the clear scutcheon of Douglas.
Men surged forward to close in and blot out the glow from the killer's fingers.
It is the blot on Richard Feverel, for instance, that it begins to end well; and then tricks you and ends ill.
The failure to recognize the sanctity of marriage is the great blot on the system of Confucius as a scheme of morals.
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