BLOT OUT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does blot out mean? 

• BLOT OUT (verb)
  The verb BLOT OUT has 1 sense:

1. make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing

  Familiarity information: BLOT OUT used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLOT OUT (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

blot out; hide; obliterate; obscure; veil

Context example:

a veiled threat

Hypernyms (to "blot out" is one way to...):

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Verb group:

efface; obliterate (remove completely from recognition or memory)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "blot out"):

mystify (make mysterious)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

 Context examples 

Last night one of my post-dated letters went to post, the first of that fatal series which is to blot out the very traces of my existence from the earth.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I knew well that I risked death; for any drug that so potently controlled and shook the very fortress of identity, might, by the least scruple of an overdose or at the least inopportunity in the moment of exhibition, utterly blot out that immaterial tabernacle which I looked to it to change.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Perhaps some unbelievable guest would arrive, a person infinitely rare and to be marvelled at, some authentically radiant young girl who with one fresh glance at Gatsby, one moment of magical encounter, would blot out those five years of unwavering devotion.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)