- Blotted
- Blot Blot, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Blotted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Blotting}.] [Cf. Dan. plette. See 3d {Blot}.]
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1. To spot, stain, or bespatter, as with ink.
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The brief was writ and blotted all with gore. --Gascoigne. [1913 Webster]
2. To impair; to damage; to mar; to soil. [1913 Webster]
It blots thy beauty, as frosts do bite the meads. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
3. To stain with infamy; to disgrace. [1913 Webster]
Blot not thy innocence with guiltless blood. --Rowe. [1913 Webster]
4. To obliterate, as writing with ink; to cancel; to efface; -- generally with out; as, to blot out a word or a sentence. Often figuratively; as, to blot out offenses. [1913 Webster]
One act like this blots out a thousand crimes. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
5. To obscure; to eclipse; to shadow. [1913 Webster]
He sung how earth blots the moon's gilded wane. --Cowley. [1913 Webster]
6. To dry, as writing, with blotting paper. [1913 Webster]
Syn: To obliterate; expunge; erase; efface; cancel; tarnish; disgrace; blur; sully; smear; smutch. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.
