blot out

Definitions

1. 1

   Used other than figuratively or idiomatically

   Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see blot, out.

2. 2

   To obscure.

   • The moon blotted out the sun and all was dark.
   • However, upon a ſtrict Review, I blotted out ſeveral Paſſages of leſs Moment which were in my firſt Copy, for fear of being cenſured as tedious and trifling, whereof Travellers are often, perhaps not without Juſtice, accuſed.
   • The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom.[…]Roaring, leaping, pouncing, the tempest raged about the wanderers, drowning and blotting out their forms with sandy spume.
3. 3

   To make indecipherable

   To make indecipherable; to obliterate.

   • From the time he had left the house in Soho on the morning of the murder, he was simply blotted out; and gradually, as time drew on, Mr. Utterson began to recover from the hotness of his alarm, and to grow more at quiet with himself.
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   1. 4

      To annihilate

      • And every living substance that I have made will I blot out from off the face of the earth.

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