blot
blot is a 4-letter English word with 17 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To spot, stain, or bespatter, as with ink. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- transitive verb. To spot, stain, or bespatter, as with ink.
- transitive verb. To impair; to damage; to mar; to soil.
- transitive verb. To stain with infamy; to disgrace.
- transitive verb. 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.
- transitive verb. To obscure; to eclipse; to shadow.
- transitive verb. To dry, as writing, with blotting paper.
- intransitive verb. To take a blot; as, this paper blots easily.
- noun. A spot or stain, as of ink on paper; a blur.
- noun. An obliteration of something written or printed; an erasure.
- noun. A spot on reputation; a stain; a disgrace; a reproach; a blemish.
- noun. An exposure of a single man to be taken up.
- noun. A single man left on a point, exposed to be taken up.
- noun. A weak point; a failing; an exposed point or mark.
- noun. an act that brings discredit to the person who does it
"he made a huge blot on his copybook"
- noun. a blemish made by dirt
"he had a smudge on his cheek"
- verb. make a spot or mark onto
"The wine spotted the tablecloth"
- verb. dry (ink) with blotting paper
Synonyms
smear, smirch, spot, stain, daub, slur, smudge, blob, fleck
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in blot:
Common word forms
blots, blotted, blotter, blotless, blotting
Words from these letters
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