'Blotting' definitions:

Definition of 'Blotting'

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  • 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]

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