blot+out

  • 11blot out — {v. phr.} 1. To obstruct; cover; obscure. * /The high rise building in front of our apartment house blots out the view of the ocean./ 2. To wipe out of one s memory. * /Jane can t remember the details when she was attacked in the streets; she… …

    Dictionary of American idioms

  • 12blot out — {v. phr.} 1. To obstruct; cover; obscure. * /The high rise building in front of our apartment house blots out the view of the ocean./ 2. To wipe out of one s memory. * /Jane can t remember the details when she was attacked in the streets; she… …

    Dictionary of American idioms

  • 13blot\ out — v. phr. 1. To obstruct; cover; obscure. The high rise building in front of our apartment house blots out the view of the ocean. 2. To wipe out of one s memory. Jane can t remember the details when she was attacked in the streets; she blotted it… …

    Словарь американских идиом

  • 14blot out — verb a) to obscure The moon blotted out the sun and all was dark. b) to make something undecipherable; to obliterate From the time he had left the house in Soho on the morning of the murder, he was simply blotted out; and gradually, as time drew… …

    Wiktionary

  • 15blot out — transitive verb Date: 1530 1. to make obscure, insignificant, or inconsequential 2. wipe out, destroy …

    New Collegiate Dictionary

  • 16blot out — erase; destroy …

    English contemporary dictionary

  • 17Blot — Blot, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Blotted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Blotting}.] [Cf. Dan. plette. See 3d {Blot}.] [1913 Webster] 1. To spot, stain, or bespatter, as with ink. [1913 Webster] The brief was writ and blotted all with gore. Gascoigne. [1913… …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 18blot — ► NOUN 1) a dark mark or stain, especially one made by ink. 2) a thing that mars something that is otherwise good. ► VERB (blotted, blotting) 1) dry with an absorbent material. 2) mark, stain, or mar. 3) …

    English terms dictionary

  • 19blot — blot1 [blät] n. [ME < ?] 1. a spot or stain, esp. of ink 2. anything that spoils or mars, esp. by providing an unpleasant contrast [that shack is a blot on the landscape] 3. a moral stain; disgrace vt. blotted, blotting …

    English World dictionary

  • 20blot — blot1 [blɔt US bla:t] v past tense and past participle blotted present participle blotting [T] 1.) to make a wet surface become dry by pressing soft paper or cloth on it 2.) blot your copybook BrE informal to do something that spoils the idea… …

    Dictionary of contemporary English