Crossword-Solution: BLOT
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Blot | v. t. | To spot, stain, or bespatter, as with ink. |
| Blot | v. t. | To impair; to damage; to mar; to soil. |
| Blot | v. t. | To stain with infamy; to disgrace. |
| Blot | v. t. | 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. |
| Blot | v. t. | To obscure; to eclipse; to shadow. |
| Blot | v. t. | To dry, as writing, with blotting paper. |
| Blot | v. i. | To take a blot; as, this paper blots easily. |
| Blot | n. | A spot or stain, as of ink on paper; a blur. |
| Blot | n. | An obliteration of something written or printed; an erasure. |
| Blot | n. | A spot on reputation; a stain; a disgrace; a reproach; a blemish. |
| Blot | n. | An exposure of a single man to be taken up. |
| Blot | n. | A single man left on a point, exposed to be taken up. |
| Blot | n. | A weak point; a failing; an exposed point or mark. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
|---|---|---|
| BLOT | anagram | BOLT |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
AEAR
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CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with BLOT (5)
Here the bachelor’s gaze was continually fastening itself, till the large red seal became as a blot of blood on the retina of his eye; and as he ate and drank he still read in fancy the words thereon, although they were too remote for his sight,— “MARRY ME.” The pert injunction was like those crystal substances which, colourless themselves, assume the tone of objects about them.
But for the miscreant exile who returned Minded in flames and ashes to blot out His father’s city and his father’s gods, And glut his vengeance with his kinsmen’s blood, Or drag them captive at his chariot wheels— For Polyneices ’tis ordained that none Shall give him burial or make mourn for him, But leave his corpse unburied, to be meat For dogs and carrion crows, a ghastly sight.
You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of an underdone potato.
The smoke from the burning temple had come then to blot out the tragedy, but in my ears rang the single shriek as the knife fell.
Thuvia of Ptarth, gazing toward the east, saw the blacker blot against the blackness of the trees as the craft topped the buttressed garden wall.
Quotes with BLOT (3)
But he won’t let the pain blot out the humor no more’n he’ll let the humor blot out the pain.
No star is ever lost we once have seen, We always may be what we might have been Since Good, though only thought, Has life and breath -God's life - can always be redeemed from death. And evil in its nature is decay, And any hour may blot it all away. The hope that lost in some far distance seems, May be the truer life, and this the dream.
How shallow is the stage on which this vast drama of human hates and joys and friendships is played! Whence do men draw this passion for eternity, flung by chance as they are upon a scarcely cooled bed of lava, threatened by the beginning by the deserts that are to be, under the constant menace of the snows? Their civilizations are but fragile gildings: a volcano can blot them out, a new sea, a sand-storm.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: AARP, Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, Custom, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, S&S, Slate, The Atlantic, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 379 times in crossword archives (1942–2025).