blot /ˈblɑt/
汙點,墨水漬(vt.)亂塗,使糢糊,吸幹(vi.)弄上墨漬,吸墨水
blot /ˈblɑt/ 名詞
吸幹,吸去
Blot v. t. [imp. & p. p. Blotted p. pr. & vb. n. Blotting.]
1. To spot, stain, or bespatter, as with ink.
The brief was writ and blotted all with gore. --Gascoigne.
2. To impair; to damage; to mar; to soil.
It blots thy beauty, as frosts do bite the meads. --Shak.
3. To stain with infamy; to disgrace.
Blot not thy innocence with guiltless blood. --Rowe.
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.
One act like this blots out a thousand crimes. --Dryden.
5. To obscure; to eclipse; to shadow.
He sung how earth blots the moon's gilded wane. --Cowley.
6. To dry, as writing, with blotting paper.
Syn: -- To obliterate; expunge; erase; efface; cancel; tarnish; disgrace; blur; sully; smear; smutch.
Blot, v. i. To take a blot; as, this paper blots easily.
Blot, n.
1. A spot or stain, as of ink on paper; a blur. “Inky blots and rotten parchment bonds.”
2. An obliteration of something written or printed; an erasure.
3. A spot on reputation; a stain; a disgrace; a reproach; a blemish.
This deadly blot in thy digressing son. --Shak.
Blot, n.
1. Backgammon (a) An exposure of a single man to be taken up. (b) A single man left on a point, exposed to be taken up.
He is too great a master of his art to make a blot which may be so easily hit. --Dryden.
2. A weak point; a failing; an exposed point or mark.
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blot
n 1: a blemish made by dirt; "he had a smudge on his cheek" [syn:
smudge, spot, daub, smear, smirch, slur]
2: an act that brings discredit to the person who does it; "he
made a huge blot on his copybook" [syn: smear, smirch,
spot, stain]
v 1: dry (ink) with blotting paper
2: make a spot or mark onto; "The wine spotted the tablecloth"
[syn: spot, fleck, blob]
[also: blotting, blotted]
Blot
a stain or reproach (Job 31:7; Prov. 9:7). To blot out sin is to
forgive it (Ps. 51:1, 9; Isa. 44:22; Acts 3:19). Christ's
blotting out the handwriting of ordinances was his fulfilling
the law in our behalf (Col. 2:14).