Blot

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  • noun. A spot or a stain caused by a discoloring substance.
  • noun. An association of disgrace with one's character or reputation. synonym: stain.
  • noun. The Northern, Southern, or Western blot analyses.
  • intransitive verb. To soak up or dry with absorbent material. Often used with up.
  • intransitive verb. undefined
  • intransitive verb. To make obscure or invisible; hide. Often used with out.
  • intransitive verb. To render invisible or unreadable by marking; obliterate. Often used with out.
  • intransitive verb. To remove or block from personal memory or public remembrance. Often used with out.
  • intransitive verb. To spot or stain, as with a discoloring substance.
  • intransitive verb. To bring moral disgrace to.
  • intransitive verb. To spill or spread in a spot or stain.
  • intransitive verb. To become blotted, soaked up, or absorbed.
  • noun. An exposed piece in backgammon.
  • noun. A weak point.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A spot or stain, as of ink on paper; a blur; a disfiguring stain or mark: as, “one universal blot,”
  • noun. A scoring out; an erasure or obliteration, as in a writing.
  • noun. A spot upon character or reputation; a moral stain; a disgrace; a reproach; a blemish.
  • noun. Imputed disgrace or stain; defamation: as, to cast a blot upon one's character.
  • To spot, stain, or bespatter, as with ink, mud, or any discoloring matter.
  • Figuratively, to stain as with disgrace or infamy; tarnish; disgrace; disfigure.
  • To obliterate so as to render invisible or not distinguishable, as writing or letters with ink: generally with out: as, to blot out a word or a sentence.
  • Hence To efface; cause to be unseen or forgotten; destroy; annihilate: followed by out: as, to blot out a crime, or the remembrance of anything.
  • To darken or obscure; eclipse.
  • To dry by means of blotting-paper or the like.
  • To obliterate something written.
  • To become blotted or stained: as, this paper blots easily.
  • noun. In backgammon: A single exposed piece which is liable to be forfeited or taken up.
  • noun. The exposure of a piece in this way.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • intransitive verb. To take a blot.
  • transitive verb. To spot, stain, or bespatter, as with ink.
  • transitive verb. To impair; to damage; to mar; to soil.
  • transitive verb. To stain with infamy; to disgrace.
  • transitive verb. To obliterate, as writing with ink; to cancel; to efface; -- generally with out. Often figuratively.
  • transitive verb. To obscure; to eclipse; to shadow.
  • transitive verb. To dry, as writing, with blotting paper.
  • noun. A spot or stain, as of ink on paper; a blur.
  • noun. An obliteration of something written or printed; an erasure.
  • noun. A spot on reputation; a stain; a disgrace; a reproach; a blemish.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. An exposure of a single man to be taken up.
  • noun. A single man left on a point, exposed to be taken up.
  • noun. A weak point; a failing; an exposed point or mark.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A blemish, spot or stain made by a coloured substance.
  • noun. A stain on someone's reputation or character; a disgrace.
  • noun. The Southern blot analysis (and derived Northern and Western) analytical techniques.
  • noun. an exposed piece in backgammon.
  • verb. to cause a blot (on something) by spilling a coloured substance.
  • verb. to soak up, or absorb liquid.
  • verb. to hide, obscure or obliterate something.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. dry (ink) with blotting paper
  • Word Usage
    "A regular salt blot from the farm store is about $6 and the Deer Cane was $7.99."
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    Form
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    absorb  draw  error  fault  imbibe  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Bhatt  Dot  Kott  Lot  Lotte  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    blemish  blob  blotch  blunder  blur  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    variant
    blotted  blotting  
    verb-form
    blots  blotted  blotting