Verb
The word is derived from blot
of Blot
Source: Webster's dictionaryIt suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small. Neil Armstrong
The book of female logic is blotted all over with tears, and Justice in their courts is forever in a passion. William Makepeace Thackeray
The players have often mentioned it as an honor to Shakespeare that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been, 'Would he had blotted a thousand.' Ben Jonson
The accusing spirit, which flew up to heaven's chancery with the oath, blushed as he gave it in and the recording angel as he wrote it down dropped a tear upon the word and blotted it out forever. Laurence Sterne
Cleaning a blot with blotted fingers maketh a greater. Spanish Proverb
Nothing is more easily blotted out than a good turn. French Proverb