Synonyms for blot out

Grammar : Verb

Spell : blot

Phonetic Transcription : blɒt

Top 10 synonyms for blot out

Other synonyms for the word blot out

Définition 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

Antonyms for blot out

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