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Definition of Blot
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Blot
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; as, to blot out a word or a sentence. Often figuratively; as, to blot out offenses. To obscure; to eclipse; to shadow. To dry, as writing, with blotting paper. To take a blot; as, this paper blots easily. A spot or stain, as of ink on paper; a blur. An obliteration of something written or printed; an erasure. A spot on reputation; a stain; a disgrace; a reproach; a blemish. An exposure of a single man to be taken up. A single man left on a point, exposed to be taken up. A weak point; a failing; an exposed point or mark. Related Definitions:
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Blot Quotations
Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self. George Eliot Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether. Cyril Connolly I was a woman in a man's world. I was a Democrat in a Republican administration. I was an intellectual in a world of bureaucrats. I talked differently. This may have made me a bit like an ink blot. Jeane Kirkpatrick Give us this day our daily taste. Restore to us soups that spoons will not sink in and sauces which are never the same twice. Raise up among us stews with more gravy than we have bread to blot it with Give us pasta with a hundred fillings. Robert Farrar Capon The Constitution is not a panacea for every blot upon the public welfare. Nor should this Court, ordained as a judicial body, be thought of as a general haven for reform movements. John Marshall Harlan |
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Blot Translations
blot in Danish is plet blot in Dutch is plek, klak, klad, mop, smet, moet blot in Finnish is tahra blot in French is tache blot in German is Fleck, klecksen, Klecks, Klecks blot in Norwegian is klatt, flekk |
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