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