blot out

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blot out

verb blots out · blotting out · blotted out

  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see blot, out.
  2. transitive To obscure. The moon blotted out the sun and all was dark.
  3. transitive To make indecipherable; to obliterate. From the time he had left the house in Soho on the morning of the murder, he was simply blotted out; and gradually, as time drew on, Mr. Utterson began to recover from the hotness of his alarm, and to grow more at quiet with himself.
  4. transitive To annihilate. And every living substance that I have made will I blot out from off the face of the earth.

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verb to obscure

Françaismasquer
Italianooscurare

verb to obliterate

Françaiseffacer
Italianoscomparire

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@misc{blot_out_2026,
  title = {blot out},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/blot%20out},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}