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).