English Explanatory Dictionary

blot

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

A blemish, spot or stain made by a coloured substance.
A stain on someone's reputation or character; a disgrace.
A method of transferring proteins, DNA or RNA, onto a carrier.
An exposed piece in backgammon.

verb

To cause a blot (on something) by spilling a coloured substance.
To soak up or absorb liquid.
To dry (writing, etc.) with blotting paper.
To spot, stain, or bespatter, as with ink.
To impair; to damage; to mar; to soil.
To stain with infamy; to disgrace.
To obliterate, as writing with ink; to cancel; to efface; generally with out.
To obscure; to eclipse; to shadow.
To sell illegal drugs, to deal, to push.
To hit a blot.

Pronunciation

/blɒt/ /blɑt/ En-us-blot.ogg

Word forms

blot blots blotting blotted

Etymology

From Middle English blot (“blot, spot, stain, blemish”). Perhaps from Old Norse *blettr (“blot, stain”) (only attested in documents from after Old Norse transitioned to Icelandic blettur), or from Old French bloche (“clod of earth”).

Synonyms

asperse splatter sprinkle dirty pollute ruin ball up blight bumble botch bugger up bungle contaminate corrupt crab deprave disrupt disturb foil fuck up jack up mar mess up mishandle mommick put a crimp in queer screw up soil sour spoil stain undo upset turn upside down upset the applecart vitiate assoil beclart bedaub bedirty imbrue (especially with blood) bedizen befile befilth befoul begrime beray beshit besmear besmirch besully bewray blacken blot blur clat darken defile dirten

Related words

blotch

Derived words

beblot blotless blot on the escutcheon blottesque blot test blotto blotty dot blot electroblot histoblot immunoblot inkblot interblot Northern blot analysis Southern blot Western blot western blot analysis zoo blot blot one's copy book blot out blottable blotter blotting paper blot up outblot reblot transblot unblotted

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