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Antonyms for blot out


Grammar : Verb
Spell : blot
Phonetic Transcription : blɒt



Definition of blot out

Origin :
  • late 14c., originally "blemish," perhaps from Old Norse blettr "blot, stain," or from Old French blot, variant of bloc "block," or blestre "blister, lump, clump of earth."
  • As in murder : verb kill
  • As in obliterate : verb destroy
  • As in remove : verb do away with; kill
  • As in stamp out : verb put an end to
  • As in uproot : verb destroy; rip out of a place
  • As in wipe out : verb destroy; get rid of
  • As in bump off : verb intentionally murder someone
  • As in cancel : verb call off; erase
  • As in stash : verb hide
  • As in crush : verb defeating soundly
  • As in delete : verb erase, remove
  • As in destroy : verb demolish, devastate
  • As in eclipse : verb obscure, veil
  • As in efface : verb erase
  • As in eliminate : verb remove, throw out
  • As in eradicate : verb destroy; remove
  • As in excise : verb remove, delete
  • As in expunge : verb destroy, obliterate
  • As in exterminate : verb kill
  • As in extinguish : verb put out a fire
  • As in extinguish : verb kill; quash
  • As in extirpate : verb destroy; uproot
  • As in annihilate : verb destroy completely
  • As in annul : verb void an agreement
  • As in hide : verb conceal; remain unseen
Example sentences :
  • Blot out the memory of this world, and what would heaven or hell be to us?
  • Extract from : « The Works of Whittier, Volume V (of VII) » by John Greenleaf Whittier
  • She pressed a hand to her eyes, as if to blot out the image of Stephen.
  • Extract from : « A Pair of Blue Eyes » by Thomas Hardy
  • There was a futile longing in his soul for oblivion to blot out his misery.
  • Extract from : « Oh, You Tex! » by William Macleod Raine
  • Tears came to blot out her misery; she could not stay their fall.
  • Extract from : « Little Novels of Italy » by Maurice Henry Hewlett
  • Like him, we are not required to blot out the remembrance of the past.
  • Extract from : « Joy in Service; Forgetting, and Pressing Onward; Until the Day Dawn » by George Tybout Purves
  • He shut his eyes, as if by shutting them he could blot out the pictures of his imagination.
  • Extract from : « The Northern Iron » by George A. Birmingham
  • But I wish to Heaven I could blot out these two years as though they had never been.
  • Extract from : « The Sign of the Spider » by Bertram Mitford
  • But there it was, staring him in the face, and he could not blot out the memory of it.
  • Extract from : « Little Folks (November 1884) » by Various
  • She could not blot out the past, nor undo what she had done.
  • Extract from : « "Run To Seed" » by Thomas Nelson Page
  • Christmas, Dec. 25, 1872, is a day in my memory which time cannot blot out.
  • Extract from : « The Life and Adventures of Nat Love » by Nat Love

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