Dictionary Entry
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.
4 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 8 · 17 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To spot, stain, or bespatter, as with ink.
- 2transitive verb
To impair; to damage; to mar; to soil.
- 3transitive verb
To stain with infamy; to disgrace.
- 4transitive 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.
- 5transitive verb
To obscure; to eclipse; to shadow.
- 6transitive verb
To dry, as writing, with blotting paper.
- 7intransitive verb
To take a blot; as, this paper blots easily.
- 8noun
A spot or stain, as of ink on paper; a blur.
- 9noun
An obliteration of something written or printed; an erasure.
- 10noun
A spot on reputation; a stain; a disgrace; a reproach; a blemish.
- 11noun
An exposure of a single man to be taken up.
- 12noun
A single man left on a point, exposed to be taken up.
- 13noun
A weak point; a failing; an exposed point or mark.
- 14noun
an act that brings discredit to the person who does it
"he made a huge blot on his copybook"
- 15noun
a blemish made by dirt
"he had a smudge on his cheek"
- 16verb
make a spot or mark onto
"The wine spotted the tablecloth"
- 17verb
dry (ink) with blotting paper
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