Definitions for blot

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IPA: /blɒt/

Blot is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 33 anagrams from letters in blot (blot).

Definitions for blot

noun

1. a spot or stain, especially of ink on paper.
2. a blemish on a person's character or reputation:
3. Archaic. an erasure or obliteration, as in a writing.
4. Backgammon. an exposed piece liable to be taken or forfeited.
5. Archaic. an exposed or weak point, as in an argument or course of action.

Verb phrases

1. blot out, to make indistinguishable; obliterate: to wipe out completely; destroy:

verb (used with object)

1. to spot, stain, soil, or the like.
2. to darken; make dim; obscure or eclipse (usually followed by out):
3. to dry with absorbent paper or the like:
4. to remove with absorbent paper or the like.

verb (used without object)

1. to make a blot; spread ink, dye, etc., in a stain:
2. to become blotted or stained:
3. Chemistry. to transfer an array of separated components of a mixture to a chemically treated paper for analysis. Compare gel, gel electrophoresis.

Origin of blot

1275-1325; (noun) Middle English blotte, akin to Old Norse blettr blot, spot, stain; (v.) late Middle English blotten, derivative of the noun

Examples for blot

Think of its twisted outline as a Rorschach blot for a society—maybe a civilization.

Like Amalek, the Biblical evil-doer whose name we are enjoined to “blot out.”

The speech did irreparable damage to Powell's reputation, and he has since called it "a blot on his record."

blot out the memory of this world, and what would heaven or hell be to us?

Neither did the blot with which the birth of my grandfather was menaced affect me much.

Some day you will blot it all out of your life as a page torn and forgotten.

Shakespeare should never have used this incident; it is a blot on his conception.

That was, in fact, the only blot on his father's honour—a foul and grave blot it was.

All falsehood must be a blot as well as a sin, an injury as well as a deception.

But we must remember not only to not forget, but to blot out the enemy—not mercifully, but through genocide.