blot+out
121expunge — expunger, n. /ik spunj /, v.t., expunged, expunging. 1. to strike or blot out; erase; obliterate. 2. to efface; wipe out or destroy. [1595 1605; < L expungere to blot out, erase, equiv. to ex EX 1 + pungere to prick] * * * …
122memory — noun 1 ability to remember ADJECTIVE ▪ excellent, good, long, prodigious, retentive ▪ awful, bad, faulty, poor …
123blacken — Synonyms and related words: abuse, asperse, attaint, bark at, becloud, bedarken, bedaub, bedim, begloom, begrime, berate, besmear, besmirch, besmoke, besmutch, besoil, bespatter, bestain, betongue, black, black out, blackwash, block the light,… …
124darken — Synonyms and related words: attaint, bandage, beat down, becloud, bedarken, bedaub, bedazzle, bedim, befog, begloom, bemist, benight, besmear, besmirch, besmoke, bestain, black, black out, blacken, blackwash, blanch, blind, blind the eyes,… …
125murk — Synonyms and related words: amorphousness, bad light, becloud, bedarken, bedim, begloom, begrime, besmirch, besoil, black, black out, blacken, blackwash, block the light, blot, blot out, blotch, brown, cast a shadow, charcoal, cloud, cloud over,… …
126shade — Synonyms and related words: Masan, achromatism, adumbration, air, amount, anima, anima humana, apparition, appearance, apply paint, astral, astral spirit, atman, atom, awning, ba, baldacchino, baldachin, banshee, beat, becloud, bedarken, bedaub,… …
127ob|lit|er|ate — «uh BLIHT uh rayt», transitive verb, at|ed, at|ing. 1. to remove all traces of; wipe or blot out; destroy; efface: »The heavy rain obliterated all footprints. Figurative. By the destruction of that city, [they] obliterated the memory of their… …
128blur — v 1. smear, besmear, smirch, smudge; sully, dirty, soil, stain, smutch, begrime; bedaub, daub all over, blot, splotch, spot, blemish, splash, bespatter; blotch, mar, deface. 2. obscure, befog, obfuscate, make indistinct, dim, bedim; (all of the… …
