Word Direct Answers

What does "blot" mean?

Blot: To impair; to damage; to mar; to soil. It blots thy beauty, as frosts do bite the meads. Shak.

Additional senses

  1. 2.To stain with infamy; to disgrace. Blot not thy innocence with guiltless blood. Rowe.
  2. 3.To obliterate, as writing with ink; to cancel; to efface; -- generally with out; as, to blot out a word or a sentence. Often figuratively; as, to blot out offenses. One act like this blots out a thousand crimes. Dryden.
  3. 4.To obscure; to eclipse; to shadow. He sung how earth blots the moon's gilded wane. Cowley.
  4. 5.To dry, as writing, with blotting paper.
  5. 6.To take a blot; as, this paper blots easily.
  6. 7.A spot or stain, as of ink on paper; a blur. "Inky blots and rotten parchment bonds." Shak.
  7. 8.An obliteration of something written or printed; an erasure. Dryden.
  8. 9.A spot on reputation; a stain; a disgrace; a reproach; a blemish. This deadly blot in thy digressing son. Shak.
  9. 10.(Backgammon) (a) An exposure of a single man to be taken up. (b) A single man left on a point, exposed to be taken up. He is too great a master of his art to make a blot which may be so easily hit. Dryden.
  10. 11.A weak point; a failing; an exposed point or mark.

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