ALL meanings of blot out
blot out
B b - phrasal verb blot out If one thing blots out another thing, it is in front of the other thing and prevents it from being seen. 3
- phrasal verb blot out If you try to blot out a memory, you try to forget it. If one thought or memory blots out other thoughts or memories, it becomes the only one that you can think about. 3
- noun blot out to darken or hide entirely; obscure 3
- noun blot out to kill or destroy 3
- noun blot out a spot or stain, especially of ink on paper. 1
- noun blot out a blemish on a person's character or reputation: He had been haunted by a blot on his past. 1
- noun blot out Archaic. an erasure or obliteration, as in a writing. 1
- verb with object blot out to spot, stain, soil, or the like. 1
- verb with object blot out to darken; make dim; obscure or eclipse (usually followed by out): We watched as the moon blotted out the sun. 1
- verb with object blot out to dry with absorbent paper or the like: to blot the wet pane. 1
- verb with object blot out to remove with absorbent paper or the like. 1
- verb without object blot out to make a blot; spread ink, dye, etc., in a stain: The more slowly I write, the more this pen blots. 1
- verb without object blot out to become blotted or stained: This paper blots too easily. 1
- verb without object blot out Chemistry. to transfer an array of separated components of a mixture to a chemically treated paper for analysis. Compare gel, gel electrophoresis. 1
- transitivephrasal verb blot out shut out, exclude, block 1
- transitivephrasal verb blot out avoid thinking about, try to forget 1
- verb blot out Used other than as an idiom: see blot, out. 0
- verb blot out (Transitive Verb) To obscure. 0
- verb blot out (Transitive Verb) To make indecipherable; to obliterate. 0
- verb blot out (Transitive Verb) To annihilate. 0