blot
/blɑt/ verb C2- To cause a blot (on something) by spilling a coloured substance.
- To soak up or absorb liquid. · This paper blots easily.
- To dry (writing, etc.) with blotting paper.
- To spot, stain, or bespatter, as with ink.
- To impair; to damage; to mar; to soil.
- To stain with infamy; to disgrace.
- To obliterate, as writing with ink; to cancel; to efface; generally with out. · to blot out a word or a sentence
- To obscure; to eclipse; to shadow.
He/she/it blots · Past blotted · Past participle blotted · -ing form blotting
Verb forms
- Base form
- blot
- He/she/it
- blots
- Past
- blotted
- Past participle
- blotted
- -ing form
- blotting
From the library
On the very threshold she stopped short, wheeled about, came back and sat down by the table, light and glow as effectually blotted out as if some one had clapped an extinguisher on her.
Holmes walked across to the desk and dabbed a little ink from each bottle on to the blotting paper.
His hands were invariably blotted with ink and stained with chemicals, yet he was possessed of extraordinary delicacy of touch, as I frequently had occasion to observe when I watched him manipulating his fragile philosophical instruments.
You must find your own ink, pens, and blotting-paper, but we provide this table and chair.
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