blot
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++blot1 /blɒt $ blɑːt/ ●○○ verb (blotted, blotting) [transitive] 1. DRYto make a wet surface become dry by pressing soft paper or cloth on it 〔用软纸或布〕吸干2. blot your copybook British English informalSPOIL to do something that spoils the idea that people have of you 玷污自己的名声3 blot something ↔ out phrasal verb a) HIDE/MAKE IT HARD TO FIND OR SEEto cover or hide something completely 把…遮住，遮盖；涂去；隐藏 Thick white smoke blotted out the sun. 白色的浓烟遮住了太阳。b) if you blot out an unpleasant memory, a thought etc, you deliberately try to forget it 抹去，有意地忘记〔不快的记忆、想法等〕 She said she took drugs to blot out her problems. 她说她吸毒是为了排遣烦恼。4.blot something ↔ up phrasal verb DRYto remove liquid from a surface by pressing soft paper or cloth onto it 〔用软纸或布〕吸干，擦干→ See Verb table
Examples from the Corpus
blot• Would the daughter even remember her father with the perpetual presence of Hope to blot him out?• Covered the sky, blotted it right out.• Any surface oil not absorbed after 10-15 minutes should be blotted off with a tissue.• But the last 16 minutes blotted out all the blundering and turned this into an unforgettable classic.• By the time I reached the small town of Pinedale the blue sky had been blotted out by ugly, sulphurous yellow.• A stage-a melee-heaving bodies-and then a huge hand filled the screen and blotted out everything for an instant.• Maybe I was blotting out my past, as provincials do, in my haste to get to where the action was.• Kendall and his shadow blotted the tunnel ahead.blot2 noun [countable] 1 MARKa mark or dirty spot on something, especially made by ink 〔尤指墨水弄成的〕污点，污渍 ink blots 墨水渍2 SPOILa building, structure etc that is ugly and spoils the appearance of a place 破坏景致的东西 The new power station is a blot on the landscape. 那座新建的发电站真是煞风景。3 SPOILsomething that spoils the good opinion that people have of someone or something 〔名誉上的〕污点，瑕疵blot on The increase in juvenile crime is a blot on our time. 青少年犯罪率上升是我们这个时代的耻辱。Examples from the Corpus
blot• I appeared twice like an ink blot on a folded sheet of paper: a passive, meaningless blur.• Right: Victor Hugo, ink blot, about 1855.• This ink blot, due to be exhibited, dates from Hugo's eighteen year-long political exile on the island of Jersey.• ink blots• He makes no blot who has no ink, Nor gathers honey who keeps no bees.• This man Otis is the one blot on the banner of southern California; he is the bar sinister on your escutcheon.• Clones displaying a preferential expression in early placenta after Southern blot analysis were selected and sequenced.• All transformed cell lines were examined by Southern blot hybridisation.• There has been only one report that has identified epoxide hydrolase in colonic carcinomas, by western blot analysis.ink blots• Symmetry Symmetry requires mirror imagery, on the principle of the child's folded ink blots.• On the other side of the map there were several pictures which, from a distance, looked like ink blots.blot on the landscape• The container site at North Farm is a real blot on the landscape.blot on• The oil rigs are a blot on the coastline.• The massacre is one of the great blots on our nation's history.Origin blot2 (1300-1400) Probably from a Scandinavian languageblot1 verbblot2 nounChinese
by a pressing wet make to surface dry become Corpus
blot
blot1 /blɒt $ blɑːt/ 
verb (past tense and past participle blotted, present participle blotting) [transitive]
1. to make a wet surface become dry by pressing soft paper or cloth on it
2. blot your copybook British English informal to do something that spoils the idea that people have of you
blot something ↔ out phrasal verb
1. to cover or hide something completely:
Thick white smoke blotted out the sun.
2. if you blot out an unpleasant memory, a thought etc, you deliberately try to forget it:
She said she took drugs to blot out her problems.
blot something ↔ up phrasal verb
to remove liquid from a surface by pressing soft paper or cloth onto it
blot2 noun [countable]
ink blots
2. a building, structure etc that is ugly and spoils the appearance of a place:
The new power station is a blot on the landscape.
3. something that spoils the good opinion that people have of someone or something
blot on
The increase in juvenile crime is a blot on our time.
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verb (past tense and past participle blotted, present participle blotting) [transitive]1. to make a wet surface become dry by pressing soft paper or cloth on it
2. blot your copybook British English informal to do something that spoils the idea that people have of you
blot something ↔ out phrasal verb
1. to cover or hide something completely:
2. if you blot out an unpleasant memory, a thought etc, you deliberately try to forget it:
blot something ↔ up phrasal verb
to remove liquid from a surface by pressing soft paper or cloth onto it
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noun [countable] Date: 1300-1400
Origin: Probably from a Scandinavian language
1. a mark or dirty spot on something, especially made by ink:Origin: Probably from a Scandinavian language
2. a building, structure etc that is ugly and spoils the appearance of a place:
3. something that spoils the good opinion that people have of someone or something
blot on
mark a small area of dirt or other substance on the surface of sth, especially one that spoils its appearance 指污点、污迹、斑点 ：◆ The kids left dirty marks all over the kitchen floor. 孩子们把厨房的地板弄得污迹斑斑。 stain a dirty mark on sth that is difficult to remove, especially one made by a liquid 指污点、污渍 ：◆ blood stains 血迹 fingerprint a mark on a surface made by the pattern of lines on the end of a person's finger, often used by the police to identify criminals 指指纹、指印 ：◆ Her fingerprints were all over the gun. 那支枪上布满了她的指纹。 streak a long thin mark or line that is a different colour from the surface it is on 指条纹、条痕 ：◆ She had streaks of grey in her hair. 她头上已是白发绺绺。 speck a very small mark, spot or piece of a substance on sth 指小点、污点 ：◆ There isn't a speck of dust anywhere in the house.整间房子一尘不染。 blot a spot or dirty mark left on sth by a substance such as ink or paint being dropped on a surface 指污点、墨渍 smear a mark made by sth such as oil or paint being spread or rubbed on a surface 指污迹、油渍、污渍、污点 spot a small dirty mark on sth 指污迹、污渍、污点 ：◆ There were grease spots all over the walls. 墙上满是油渍。
Patterns
a streak/speck/blot/smear/spot of stha greasy mark/stain/smearan ink mark/stain/blot/spota grease mark/stain/spotto leave a mark/stain/fingerprint/streak/speck/blot/smear