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blots out

blots out is the third-person singular simple present indicative of blot out.

Meaning of blot out

Verb

blot out (third-person singular simple present blots out, present participle blotting out, simple past and past participle blotted out)

  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see blot, out.
  2. (transitive) To obscure.
    • The moon blotted out the sun and all was dark.
  3. (transitive) To make indecipherable; to obliterate.
    • From the time he had left the house in Soho on the morning of the murder, he was simply blotted out; and gradually, as time drew on, Mr. Utterson began to recover from the hotness of his alarm, and to grow more at quiet with himself.1886 January 5, Robert Louis Stevenson, “Remarkable Incident of Dr. Lanyon”, in Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, page 54
  4. (transitive) To annihilate.
    • And every living substance that I have made will I blot out from off the face of the earth.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 7:4

Questions about blots out

What is blots out the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Blots out is the third-person singular simple present indicative of blot out.

Words near blots out in the dictionary

  1. blots
  2. blots on escutcheons
  3. blots on the escutcheon
  4. blots one's copy book
  5. blots one's copybook
  6. blots out
  7. blots up
  8. blottable
  9. blotted
  10. blotted one's copy book
  11. blotted one's copybook

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Adapted from Wiktionary: blots out (page history and authors); blot out (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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