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n. A spot or a stain caused by a discoloring substance: a blot of paint.

n. A stain on one's character or reputation; a disgrace. See Synonyms at stain.

n. The Northern, Southern, or Western blot analyses.

v. To spot or stain, as with a discoloring substance.

v. To bring moral disgrace to.

v. To obliterate (writing, for example).

v. To make obscure; hide: clouds blotting out the moon.

v. To destroy utterly; annihilate: War blotted out their traditional way of life.

v. To soak up or dry with absorbent material.

verb-intransitive. To spill or spread in a spot or stain.

verb-intransitive. To become blotted, soaked up, or absorbed.

n. Games An exposed piece in backgammon.

n. Archaic A weak point.

n. A blemish, spot or stain made by a coloured substance.

n. A stain on someone's reputation or character; a disgrace.

n. The Southern blot analysis (and derived Northern and Western) analytical techniques.

n. an exposed piece in backgammon.

v. to cause a blot (on something) by spilling a coloured substance.

v. to soak up, or absorb liquid.

v. to hide, obscure or obliterate something.

v. To spot, stain, or bespatter, as with ink.

v. To impair; to damage; to mar; to soil.

v. To stain with infamy; to disgrace.

v. To obliterate, as writing with ink; to cancel; to efface; -- generally with out. Often figuratively.

v. To obscure; to eclipse; to shadow.

v. To dry, as writing, with blotting paper.

verb-intransitive. To take a blot.

n. A spot or stain, as of ink on paper; a blur.

n. An obliteration of something written or printed; an erasure.

n. A spot on reputation; a stain; a disgrace; a reproach; a blemish.

n.

n. An exposure of a single man to be taken up.

n. A single man left on a point, exposed to be taken up.

n. A weak point; a failing; an exposed point or mark.

n. A spot or stain, as of ink on paper; a blur; a disfiguring stain or mark: as, “one universal blot,”

n. A scoring out; an erasure or obliteration, as in a writing.

n. A spot upon character or reputation; a moral stain; a disgrace; a reproach; a blemish.

n. 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.

n. In backgammon: A single exposed piece which is liable to be forfeited or taken up.

n. The exposure of a piece in this way.

v. dry (ink) with blotting paper

n. a blemish made by dirt

v. make a spot or mark onto

n. an act that brings discredit to the person who does it

"Fortunately my younger brother was able to remove this blot from the family escutcheon by joining the Canadian Army in 1941."

blots    blotted    blotting   

draw    suck up    absorb    take-up    sop up    soak up    take-in    suck    imbibe    mistake   

to hit the blot   

blotting    blotted   

blotting paper    blot out   

impair    damage    mar    soil    disgrace    cancel    efface    obscure    eclipse    shadow   

Bhatt    Dot    Kott    Lot    Lotte    Minot    Montserrat    Mott    Ott    Sadat   

blotch    stain    speck    smear    blob    smudge    blur    blemish    streak    dot