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1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Blot \Blot\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Blotted}; p. pr & vb n. {Blotting}.] [Cf. Dan. plette. See 3d {Blot}.] 1. To spot, stain, or bespatter, as with ink. The brief was writ and blotted all with gore. --Gascoigne. 2. To impair; to damage; to mar; to soil. It blots thy beauty, as frosts do bite the meads. --Shak. 3. To stain with infamy; to disgrace. Blot not thy innocence with guiltless blood. --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. --Dryden. 5. To obscure; to eclipse; to shadow. He sung how earth blots the moon's gilded wane. --Cowley. 6. To dry, as writing, with blotting paper. Syn: To obliterate; expunge; erase; efface; cancel; tarnish; disgrace; blur; sully; smear; smutch.
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