blot out

Verb

Meaning

make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

hide obscure veil obliterate lynch clear cover screen block kill remove destroy clean cloud eliminate
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Antonyms

see describe explain exhibit teach schedule
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Hypernyms

change alter modify

Hyponyms

mystify

Examples

Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self. George Eliot

Blot out vain pomp; check impulse; quench appetite; keep reason under its own control. Marcus Aurelius

Love and respect woman. Look to her not only for comfort, but for strength and inspiration and the doubling of your intellectual and moral powers. Blot out from your mind any idea of superiority; you have none. Giuseppe Mazzini

But he won't let the pain blot out the humor no more'n he'll let the humor blot out the pain. Ken Kesey

Please to blot out gentle hearted, and substitute drunken dog, ragged head, seld-shaven, odd-ey'd, stuttering, or any other epithet which truly and properly belongs to the Gentleman in question. Charles Lamb

The senses serve to blot out many more aspects of reality than they allow you to perceive. They are actually rather rigid limiting devices, yet in many inner explorations you will automatically translate experience into terms that the senses can use. Robert Butts

Close letter words and terms

blot on the escutcheon blot on the landscape blot one's copybook blot test blot up blot your copybook