Word Meanings - BLOT - Book Publishers vocabulary database
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
Additional info about word: BLOT
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.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of BLOT)
- Blemish
- Spot
- blur
- blot
- flaw
- speck
- fault
- imperfection
- stain
- daub
- tarnish
- defacement
- discoloration
- disfigurement
- disgrace
- dishonor
- defect
- Erase
- Obliterate
- efface
- expunge
- cancel
- Indiscretion
- Misconduct
- misbehavior
- misdoing
- misdeed
- dereliction
- delinquency
- lapse
- trip
- slip
- omission
- trespass
- peccadillo
- Stain Dye
- color
- tinge
- slur
- shame
- paint
- soil
- sully
- discolor
- taint
- befoul
- blemish
- stigmatize
- Stigma
- Brand
- mark
- infamy
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of BLOT)
- Distinguish
- honor
- decorate
- Daub
- caricature
- misportray
- misrepresent
- misdelineate
- misdepict
- Purify
- wash
- cleanse
- absolve
- ornament
- emblazon
- signalize
Related words: (words related to BLOT)
- BRANDLING; BRANDLIN
See WORM - BRAND IRON
1. A branding iron. 2. A trivet to set a pot on. Huloet. 3. The horizontal bar of an andiron. - COLORMAN
A vender of paints, etc. Simmonds. - MISDEMEAN
To behave ill; -- with a reflexive pronoun; as, to misdemean one's self. - SHAMEFAST
Modest; shamefaced. -- Shame"fast*ly, adv. -- Shame"fast*ness, n. See Shamefaced. Shamefast she was in maiden shamefastness. Chaucer. is a blushing shamefast spirit. Shak. Modest apparel with shamefastness. 1 Tim. ii. 9 . - DECORATE
To deck with that which is becoming, ornamental, or honorary; to adorn; to beautify; to embellish; as, to decorate the person; to decorate an edifice; to decorate a lawn with flowers; to decorate the mind with moral beauties; to decorate a hero - HONORABLE
1. Worthy of honor; fit to be esteemed or regarded; estimable; illustrious. Thy name and honorable family. Shak. 2. High-minded; actuated by principles of honor, or a scrupulous regard to probity, rectitude, or reputation. 3. Proceeding from an - FAULTINESS
Quality or state of being faulty. Round, even to faultiness. Shak. - SPECK
The blubber of whales or other marine mammals; also, the fat of the hippopotamus. Speck falls , falls or ropes rove through blocks for hoisting the blubber and bone of whales on board a whaling vessel. - PURIFY
1. To make pure or clear from material defilement, admixture, or imperfection; to free from extraneous or noxious matter; as, to purify liquors or metals; to purify the blood; to purify the air. 2. Hence, in figurative uses: To free from guilt - SIGNALIZE
1. To make signal or eminent; to render distinguished from what is common; to distinguish. It is this passion which drives men to all the ways we see in use of signalizing themselves. Burke. 2. To communicate with by means of a signal; as, a ship - MISDESERT
Ill desert. Spenser. - DEFECTIONIST
One who advocates or encourages defection. - CANCELLATE
Consisting of a network of veins, without intermediate parenchyma, as the leaves of certain plant; latticelike. - HONORABLENESS
1. The state of being honorable; eminence; distinction. 2. Conformity to the principles of honor, probity, or moral rectitude; fairness; uprightness; reputableness. - ORNAMENTAL
Serving to ornament; characterized by ornament; beautifying; embellishing. Some think it most ornamental to wear their bracelets on their wrists; others, about their ankles. Sir T. Browne. - DEFECTUOSITY
Great imperfection. W. Montagu. - SPECKLED-BILL
The American white-fronted goose . - CANCEL
To suppress or omit; to strike out, as matter in type. Canceled figures , figures cast with a line across the face., as for use in arithmetics. Syn. -- To blot out; Obliterate; deface; erase; efface; expunge; annul; abolish; revoke; abrogate; - SPECKLEDNESS
The quality of being speckled. - CONTINGENT
Dependent for effect on something that may or may not occur; as, a contingent estate. If a contingent legacy be left to any one when he attains, or if he attains, the age of twenty-one. Blackstone. (more info) touch on all sides, to happen; con- - CONTRADISTINGUISH
To distinguish by a contrast of opposite qualities. These are our complex ideas of soul and body, as contradistinguished. Locke. - SUSTAIN
F. soutenir (the French prefix is properly fr. L. subtus below, fr. sub under), L. sustinere; pref. sus- + tenere to hold. See 1. To keep from falling; to bear; to uphold; to support; as, a foundation sustains the superstructure; a beast sustains - INDISTINGUISHABLE
Not distinguishable; not capable of being perceived, known, or discriminated as separate and distinct; hence, not capable of being perceived or known; as, in the distance the flagship was indisguishable; the two copies were indisguishable in form - PICK-FAULT
One who seeks out faults. - CONCOLOR
Of the same color; of uniform color. "Concolor animals." Sir T. Browne. - INDEFECTIBLE
Not defectible; unfailing; not liable to defect, failure, or decay. An indefectible treasure in the heavens. Barrow. A state of indefectible virtue and happiness. S. Clarke. - REPAINT
To paint anew or again; as, to repaint a house; to repaint the ground of a picture. - PROLAPSE
The falling down of a part through the orifice with which it is naturally connected, especially of the uterus or the rectum. Dunglison.