Blot
[blɒt] or [blɑt]
Definition
(noun.) an act that brings discredit to the person who does it; 'he made a huge blot on his copybook'.
(verb.) dry (ink) with blotting paper.
Typed by Clarissa--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To spot, stain, or bespatter, as with ink.
(v. t.) To impair; to damage; to mar; to soil.
(v. t.) To stain with infamy; to disgrace.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) To obscure; to eclipse; to shadow.
(v. t.) To dry, as writing, with blotting paper.
(v. i.) To take a blot; as, this paper blots easily.
(n.) A spot or stain, as of ink on paper; a blur.
(n.) An obliteration of something written or printed; an erasure.
(n.) A spot on reputation; a stain; a disgrace; a reproach; a blemish.
(n.) An exposure of a single man to be taken up.
(n.) A single man left on a point, exposed to be taken up.
(n.) A weak point; a failing; an exposed point or mark.
Checker: Steve
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Efface, obliterate, erase, cancel, expunge, rub out, blot out, scratch out, strike out.[2]. Spot, stain, blur, disfigure.[3]. Tarnish, sully, disgrace.
n. [1]. Obliteration, erasure, blotting.[2]. Blur, spot, stain, blemish.[3]. Disgrace, cause of reproach.
Edited by Bernice
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Obscure, tarnish, spoil, sully, spot, discolor, pollute, obliterate, erase,blur, stain, blotch, smear, smutch
ANT:Elucidate, clear, absterge, perpetuate, cleanse, manifest, conserve
Checked by Elisha
Definition
n. a piece liable to be taken at backgammon: a weak place in anything.
n. a spot or stain: an obliteration as of something written: a stain in reputation.—v.t. to spot or stain: to obliterate or destroy: to disgrace: to dry writing with blotting-paper:—pr.p. blot′ting; pa.p. blot′ted.—n. and adj. Blot′tesque a painting executed with heavy blot-like touches a daub or (fig.) a vigorous descriptive sketch.—n. Blotting-pā′per unsized paper used for absorbing ink.—adj. Blot′ty.
Typist: Ruth
Examples
- And that money-winning business is really a blot. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- That's the reason I was born in it, observed Jo pensively, quite unconscious of the blot on her nose. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Behold ambition on his brow, And on his nose, a blot. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- They have tried to blot out human prestige, to minimize the influence of personality. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The letter never reached its destination; but that, and other proofs, she kept, in case they ever tried to lie away the blot. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- And thus thy fall hath left a kind of blot, To mark the full-fraught man and best indued With some suspicion. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- It is dim enough, with a blot-headed candle or so in the windows, and an old man and a cat sitting in the back part by a fire. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I swallowed some lavender-drops and tried to write: blotted twenty sheets of paper with unintelligible nonsense and wetted them with my tears. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- If it had been written straight off, and then blotted, none would be of a deep black shade. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- A blinding gust of smoke blotted out the tragedy within that fearsome cell--a shriek rang out, a single shriek, as the dagger fell. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- The heath and changes of weather were quite blotted out from their eyes for the present. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- The name of the firm is accidentally blotted in my diary, and my sacred regard for truth forbids me to hazard a guess in a matter of this kind. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- It's very much blotted, sir,' said the farmer of infants; 'but it's formal enough, I dare say. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- A vast shadow, in which could be dimly traced portions of a masculine contour, blotted half the ceiling. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- He tore off a strip of the blotting-paper and turned towards us the following hieroglyphic: GRAPHIC Cyril Overton was much excited. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Allow the paper to remain half a minute, and then dip it into water, and again dry it lightly with blotting paper. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- After being placed for an instant between blotting paper, to remove superfluous moisture, it is laid with the drawing downwards on the stone, which is slightly warmed. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Behind, was a high shadow of a peak, blotting out the stars, like a ghoSt. They drew near to their home. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Then dip it into a vessel of water; remove the water on the surface by blotting paper, and dry it by a fire, in the dark or by candle-light. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- This flows too easily, and even using the greatest care I can hardly keep from blotting it. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- You must find your own ink, pens, and blotting-paper, but we provide this table and chair. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- The two or three lines which follow contain fragments of words only, mingled with blots and scratches of the pen. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- He leaves out half his words, and blots the rest. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- I see the blots I threw upon it, faded away. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Every drop blots out a sin. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Four sides of incoherent and interjectional beginnings of sentences, that had no end, except blots, were inadequate to afford her any relief. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- It was feeble and faint, and defaced by blots, but had otherwise nothing to distinguish it. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
Typed by Clarissa