Blot
noun
A dark mark or stain, typically one made by ink, paint, or dirt.
There's a blot of ink on your shirt
Often appears as...
- ink blot
- stain blot
verb
To dry or remove by soaking up.
I used a tissue to blot the spilled coffee off the table
Often appears as...
- blot up
- blot away
noun
A thing that spoils or damages something's appearance or quality.
Their bad behavior was a blot on the family's good name
Often appears as...
- blot on reputation
- blot on record
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Disapproving
verb
Cause to seem less serious or negative by comparison with something worse.
His previous mistakes were blotted out by his recent achievements
Often appears as...
- blot out crime
- blot past
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Approving
noun
A dark mark or stain, typically one made by ink, paint, or dirt.
There's a blot of ink on your shirt
Often appears as...
- ink blot
- stain blot
verb
To dry or remove by soaking up.
I used a tissue to blot the spilled coffee off the table
Often appears as...
- blot up
- blot away
noun
A thing that spoils or damages something's appearance or quality.
Their bad behavior was a blot on the family's good name
Often appears as...
- blot on reputation
- blot on record
Usage tips
Disapproving
verb
Cause to seem less serious or negative by comparison with something worse.
His previous mistakes were blotted out by his recent achievements
Often appears as...
- blot out crime
- blot past
Usage tips
Approving
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/3Visual Marks
Blot as a noun often refers to a visible blemish caused unintentionally.
Oops, a blot of paint defaced my new wallpaper.
Pro Tip 2/3Often Accidental
When using 'blot', it usually implies an accidental spill or spot that's undesirable.
Be careful with the pen, or you'll leave a blot on the document.
Pro Tip 3/3Negative Emotion
'Blot' can carry a negative connotation, suggesting annoyance or upset.
He frowned at the blot marring the contract's white page.
Pro Tip 1/3Visual Marks
Blot as a noun often refers to a visible blemish caused unintentionally.
Oops, a blot of paint defaced my new wallpaper.
Pro Tip 2/3Often Accidental
When using 'blot', it usually implies an accidental spill or spot that's undesirable.
Be careful with the pen, or you'll leave a blot on the document.
Pro Tip 3/3Negative Emotion
'Blot' can carry a negative connotation, suggesting annoyance or upset.
He frowned at the blot marring the contract's white page.
Pro Tip 1/3Visual Marks
Blot as a noun often refers to a visible blemish caused unintentionally.
Oops, a blot of paint defaced my new wallpaper.
Pro Tip 2/3Often Accidental
When using 'blot', it usually implies an accidental spill or spot that's undesirable.
Be careful with the pen, or you'll leave a blot on the document.
Pro Tip 3/3Negative Emotion
'Blot' can carry a negative connotation, suggesting annoyance or upset.
He frowned at the blot marring the contract's white page.
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Storytellers Summit Day...
the protagonists of the narrative it's their story and I think just you know a quick aside of what that blot the story did you just said it's so powerful about the blind kid who knew like even though he can't see he he wants to be in the frame well and he wants to be represented also well there is a bigger
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How does the Rorschach...
the detail-oriented, the big-picture perceivers, and flexible participants able to adapt their approach. Some people would get stuck, offering the same answer for multiple blots. Others gave unusual and delightful descriptions. Responses were as varied as the inkblots,
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How changing your story...
but there's probably something else that she's not willing to let me, in her letter, or maybe even herself, to see. It's like that guy who's taking a Rorschach test. You all know what Rorschach tests are? A psychologist shows you some ink blots, they look like that,
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Depression, the secret...
when I interviewed her, she said, "I was singing 'Where Have All The Flowers Gone,' over and over, to occupy my mind. I was singing to blot out the things my mind was saying, which were, 'You are nothing. You are nobody. You don't even deserve to live.'
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John Hockenberry: We are...
Think about it. Now, in design terms, a wheelchair is a very difficult object. It mostly projects tragedy and fear and misfortune, and it projects that message, that story, so strongly that it almost blots out anything else.
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Why is meningitis so...
leading to septicemia, also known as blood poisoning. This breaks down blood vessels, letting blood seep out and form what starts out looking like a rash, and evolves into big discoloured blots beneath the skin.
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Ants Devour Slug Alive!...
begin to bring particles of soil and place them on the slug in this way the slime is soaked up like ink on blotting paper gradually the slug disappears under a writhing mass of earth and ants
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How I found a mythical...
but the few that return come back with stories, stories of powerful shamans, of warriors with poisoned arrows, of trees so tall they blotted out the sun,
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Best Of Ants PIPE BBC Earth
ink on blotting paper gradually the slug disappears under a writhing mass of earth and ants
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Best of Tiny Animals PIPE...
blotting paper gradually the slug disappears under a rising mass of earth and ants
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Storytellers Summit Day...
the protagonists of the narrative it's their story and I think just you know a quick aside of what that blot the story did you just said it's so powerful about the blind kid who knew like even though he can't see he he wants to be in the frame well and he wants to be represented also well there is a bigger
Video examples
How does the Rorschach...
the detail-oriented, the big-picture perceivers, and flexible participants able to adapt their approach. Some people would get stuck, offering the same answer for multiple blots. Others gave unusual and delightful descriptions. Responses were as varied as the inkblots,
Video examples
How changing your story...
but there's probably something else that she's not willing to let me, in her letter, or maybe even herself, to see. It's like that guy who's taking a Rorschach test. You all know what Rorschach tests are? A psychologist shows you some ink blots, they look like that,
Video examples
Depression, the secret...
when I interviewed her, she said, "I was singing 'Where Have All The Flowers Gone,' over and over, to occupy my mind. I was singing to blot out the things my mind was saying, which were, 'You are nothing. You are nobody. You don't even deserve to live.'
Video examples
John Hockenberry: We are...
Think about it. Now, in design terms, a wheelchair is a very difficult object. It mostly projects tragedy and fear and misfortune, and it projects that message, that story, so strongly that it almost blots out anything else.
Video examples
Why is meningitis so...
leading to septicemia, also known as blood poisoning. This breaks down blood vessels, letting blood seep out and form what starts out looking like a rash, and evolves into big discoloured blots beneath the skin.
Video examples
Ants Devour Slug Alive!...
begin to bring particles of soil and place them on the slug in this way the slime is soaked up like ink on blotting paper gradually the slug disappears under a writhing mass of earth and ants
Video examples
How I found a mythical...
but the few that return come back with stories, stories of powerful shamans, of warriors with poisoned arrows, of trees so tall they blotted out the sun,
Video examples
Best Of Ants PIPE BBC Earth
ink on blotting paper gradually the slug disappears under a writhing mass of earth and ants
Video examples
Best of Tiny Animals PIPE...
blotting paper gradually the slug disappears under a rising mass of earth and ants
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Quote examples
Robert Farrar Capon
American Clergyman
Give us this day our daily taste. Restore to us soups that spoons will not sink in and sauces which are never the same twice. Raise up among us stews with more gravy than we have bread to blot it with Give us pasta with a hundred fillings.
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Julie Walters
British Actress
It wasn't being an alcoholic - it was going wild. It happened when I got famous. It was like having my teens in my early thirties: blotting out your life, not having to think about anything.
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Lord Byron
British Poet
What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.
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George Eliot
British Author
Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.
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Buffalo Bill
American Celebrity
But the West of the old times, with its strong characters, its stern battles and its tremendous stretches of loneliness, can never be blotted from my mind.
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Susie Orbach
English Psychologist
Fat people are so rarely included in visual culture that fat is perceived as a blot on the landscape of sleek and slim.
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William Makepeace Thackeray
English Novelist
The book of female logic is blotted all over with tears, and Justice in their courts is forever in a passion.
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Edmund Waller
English Poet
Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.
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Ambrose Bierce
American Journalist
Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.
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Neil Armstrong
American Astronaut
I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth.
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Robert Farrar Capon
American Clergyman
Give us this day our daily taste. Restore to us soups that spoons will not sink in and sauces which are never the same twice. Raise up among us stews with more gravy than we have bread to blot it with Give us pasta with a hundred fillings.
Quote examples
Julie Walters
British Actress
It wasn't being an alcoholic - it was going wild. It happened when I got famous. It was like having my teens in my early thirties: blotting out your life, not having to think about anything.
Quote examples
Lord Byron
British Poet
What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.
Quote examples
George Eliot
British Author
Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.
Quote examples
Buffalo Bill
American Celebrity
But the West of the old times, with its strong characters, its stern battles and its tremendous stretches of loneliness, can never be blotted from my mind.
Quote examples
Susie Orbach
English Psychologist
Fat people are so rarely included in visual culture that fat is perceived as a blot on the landscape of sleek and slim.
Quote examples
William Makepeace Thackeray
English Novelist
The book of female logic is blotted all over with tears, and Justice in their courts is forever in a passion.
Quote examples
Edmund Waller
English Poet
Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.
Quote examples
Ambrose Bierce
American Journalist
Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.
Quote examples
Neil Armstrong
American Astronaut
I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth.
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