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Blot   /blɑt/   Listen
Blot

noun
1.
A blemish made by dirt.  Synonyms: daub, slur, smear, smirch, smudge, spot.
2.
An act that brings discredit to the person who does it.  Synonyms: smear, smirch, spot, stain.
verb
(past & past part. blotted; pres. part. blotting)
1.
Dry (ink) with blotting paper.
2.
Make a spot or mark onto.  Synonyms: blob, fleck, spot.



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"Blot" Quotes from Famous Books



... their broad vans, and in the solitude Of middle space confound them, and blow back Their wild cries down their cavernthroats, and slake With points of blastborne hail their heated eyne! So their wan limbs no more might come between The moon and the moon's reflex in the night; Nor blot with floating shades the ...
— The Suppressed Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson • Alfred Lord Tennyson

... blood." Further, by the beginning of the last century, the main line had, so far as the union of its members was blessed by the Church, expired, and no legitimate offspring were left. Gilbert's spouse, accordingly, must, if a genuine Oliverres, have come into the world with a considerable blot ...
— The Magnificent Montez - From Courtesan to Convert • Horace Wyndham

... blot of ink upon the palm of the hand, at the point where the hole appears to be, and again observe as before. Unless the attention be strongly concentrated upon objects seen through the tubes the ink-spot ...
— The Galaxy - Vol. 23, No. 1 • Various

... had returned us home, and after dinner had started down the street alone, with little Mary Alice clapping her hands after him above the gate and laughing in a strange new voice, and with the backs of her little fluttering hands vainly striving to blot out the big tear-drops that gathered in her eyes, we vaguely guessed the secret she and David kept. That night at supper-time we knew it fully. ...
— Complete Works of James Whitcomb Riley • James Whitcomb Riley

... mother could not be called a very well written one; there were several mistakes in the spelling, and here and there, a great blot could tell that a good deal of his heart had gone into it; but whatever it was, it ...
— Left at Home - or, The Heart's Resting Place • Mary L. Code


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