blotting 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