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blot

noun

1 blot

A blemish made by dirt.

synonyms: daub, slur, smear, smirch, smudge, spot.

Roget 874: disrepute, discredit; ill repute, bad repute, bad name, bad odor, bad favor, ill name, ill odor, ill favor; disapprobation etc. 932; ingloriousness, ... show more

Roget 947: guilt, guiltiness; culpability; criminality, criminousness; deviation from rectitude etc. (improbity) 940; sinfulness etc. (vice) 945.    ... show more

Roget 495: error, fallacy; misconception, misapprehension, misstanding, misunderstanding; inexactness etc. adj.; laxity; misconstruction etc. (misinterpretation) 523; ... show more

Roget 552: obliteration; erasure, rasure; cancel, cancellation; circumduction; deletion, blot; tabula rasa [Lat.]; effacement, extinction.   

Dutch: schandvlek, klad, smet, vlek
Polish: plama

2 blot

An act that brings discredit to the person who does it:
— He made a huge blot on his copybook.

synonyms: smear, smirch, spot, stain.

Roget 848: blemish, disfigurement, deformity; adactylism; flaw, defect etc. (imperfection) 651; injury etc. (deterioration) 659; ... show more

Polish: plama

verb

1 blot

Dry (ink) with blotting paper.

Roget 431: be black etc. adj.; render black etc. adj.. blacken, infuscate, denigrate; blot, blotch; smutch; smirch; darken ... show more

2 blot

Make a spot or mark onto.

synonyms: blob, fleck, spot.

Roget 653: be unclean, become unclean etc. adj.; rot, putrefy, ferment, fester, rankle, reek; stink etc. 401; mold, ... show more


Moby thesaurus: absorb, adsorb, air-dry, anhydrate, annihilate, aspersion, assimilate, attaint, baboon, badge of infamy, bag, bake, bar sinister, baton, bedarken, bend sinister, besmirch, bespatter, bespeckle, bespot ... show more.

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