blot

Noun · Verb
US[blot]/blɑt/1 syllable
Synonyms: smudgespotdaubsmearsmirchslurstainfleckblob

Open English WordNet

Noun (2)

  1. a blemish made by dirt“he had a smudge on his cheek”Synonyms: smudgespotdaubsmearsmirchslurType of blemish, defectKinds blotch, fingermark, inkblot
  2. an act that brings discredit to the person who does it“he made a huge blot on his copybook”Synonyms: smearsmirchspotstainType of mistake, error

Verb (2)blotted, blotting, bloted, bloting

  1. dry (ink) with blotting paperMore general absorb, suck
  2. make a spot or mark onto“The wine spotted the tablecloth”Synonyms: spotfleckblobMore general change surfaceMore specific tarnish, spatter, splotch, speckleSimilar stain

Related words smudge noun, blotting paper noun, slur noun, spotting noun

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Webster's Dictionary (1913)

Blot (…), transitive verb [past tense & past participle Blotted (…); present participle & verbal noun Blotting.]

Origin: Cf. Dan. plette. See 3d Blot.

1. To spot, stain, or bespatter, as with ink.

The brief was writ and blotted all with gore.— George Gascoigne

2. To impair; to damage; to mar; to soil.

It blots thy beauty, as frosts do bite the meads.— William Shakespeare

3. To stain with infamy; to disgrace.

Blot not thy innocence with guiltless blood.— Nicholas Rowe

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.

One act like this blots out a thousand crimes.— John Dryden

5. To obscure; to eclipse; to shadow.

He sung how earth blots the moon's gilded wane.— Abraham Cowley

6. To dry, as writing, with blotting paper.

Synonyms: To obliterate; expunge; erase; efface; cancel; tarnish; disgrace; blur; sully; smear; smutch.

Blot intransitive verb

To take a blot; as, this paper blots easily.

Blot noun

Origin: Cf. Icel. blettr, Dan. plet.

1. A spot or stain, as of ink on paper; a blur. “Inky blots and rotten parchment bonds.” William Shakespeare

2. An obliteration of something written or printed; an erasure. John Dryden

3. A spot on reputation; a stain; a disgrace; a reproach; a blemish.

This deadly blot in thy digressing son.— William Shakespeare
Blot noun

Origin: Cf. Dan. blot bare, naked, Sw. blott, d. bloot, G. bloss, and perh. E. bloat.

1. Backgammon (a) An exposure of a single man to be taken up. (b) A single man left on a point, exposed to be taken up.

He is too great a master of his art to make a blot which may be so easily hit.— John Dryden

2. A weak point; a failing; an exposed point or mark.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54

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