Synonyms for blot

Grammar : Noun, verb

Spell : blot

Phonetic Transcription : blɒt

Top 10 synonyms for blot

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Définition of blot

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."

noun mark; flaw
verb disgrace, disfigure
verb soak up

Example sentences :

Shakespeare should never have used this incident; it is a blot on his conception.
Extract from : « The Man Shakespeare » by Frank Harris

That was, in fact, the only blot on his father's honour—a foul and grave blot it was.
Extract from : « Night and Morning, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

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

Neither did the blot with which the birth of my grandfather was menaced affect me much.
Extract from : « Wilfrid Cumbermede » by George MacDonald

All falsehood must be a blot as well as a sin, an injury as well as a deception.
Extract from : « Modern Painters Volume I (of V) » by John Ruskin

Some day you will blot it all out of your life as a page torn and forgotten.
Extract from : « The House Under the Sea » by Sir Max Pemberton

Page after page of the neatest of minute figures, not a blot, not a blur, not an erasure.
Extract from : « The Portygee » by Joseph Crosby Lincoln

He had loved his wife passionately—that was the only blot on his character.
Extract from : « Capt'n Davy's Honeymoon » by Hall Caine

Make the same claims on yourself and your happiness is without a blot.
Extract from : « Erdgeist (Earth-Spirit) » by Frank Wedekind

It was the first blot that had ever come on the name of a member of the proud Bryan family.
Extract from : « The Mysterious Murder of Pearl Bryan » by Unknown

Antonyms for blot

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