Definitions for blotches

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blotches blotch

Spelling: [bloch]

IPA: /blɒtʃ/

Blotches is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 347 anagrams from letters in blotches (bcehlost).

Definitions for blotches

noun

1. a large, irregular spot or blot.
2. Plant Pathology. a diseased, discolored spot or area on a plant. a disease so characterized, usually accompanied by cankers and lesions.
3. a skin eruption; blemish.

adjective

1. Textiles. of or relating to blotch printing, or to the colored ground produced by this process.

verb (used with object)

1. to mark with blotches; blot, spot, or blur:

Origin of blotches

1595-1605; perhaps blend of blot¹ + botch²

Examples for blotches

There was indeed a blotch on one of the negatives, which I was assured was a spirit.

With all the writer's care, however, he had not been able to avoid a blotch.

When he raised his boot, the snake was only a blotch on the floor.

Sunday to him was a disease spot, the blotch of an inactive liver.

The month was April, and the day was blithe, with no blotch in the sky.

The lighthouse was a white dot and the fish shanties a blotch of brown.

Slowly from under Philip's body a red line spread to a blotch on the floor.

Mr. blotch remained in the engine room throughout the journey.

At first she seemed just a blotch of color upon the old burned timbers.

A blotch of blood was on his shirt-front as he lay upon his side.