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outblot

outblot verb: to blot out.

Verb

outblot (third-person singular simple present outblots, present participle outblotting, simple past and past participle outblotted)

  1. (literary, transitive) To blot out.
    • For who shall stay The first blind motions of the May? Who shall outblot the morning glow: Or stem the full heart's overflow: Who?1882, Austin Dobson, “More Poets Yet!”, in Charlotte Fiske Bates Rogé, editor, The Cambridge Book of Poetry and Song, page 722
    • As she hastened onward, his recollected voice made music in her ears, while his face remembered came ever between her and the sunlight, even as a past joy will outblot a present gladness; and she though how grand he was, and of what noble bearing, and of the pride in his calm face;1888, Amélie Rives, The Man of the Golden Fillet

Examples of outblot in a sentence

  • Each object in our humble cot Reminds me of those happy days, And time itself can ne'er outblot The memory of thy winning ways.1902, William Cryer, Lays After Labour: Or, Evening Songs, page 243:
  • Descend, O darkness, and outblot this scene of ignominy and shame.1958, Dvijendralāla Rāya, Mevar Patan; Or, Fall of Mevar: A Play in Five Acts, page 124:
  • These spurious intensity distributions tend to outblot faint stains or to enhance the interference between stains belonging to the same cluster.1983, Hans Wilhelm Schüssler, Signal processing II, page 292:

Forms of outblot

third-person singular presentoutblots
present participleoutblotting
past participleoutblotted
pastoutblotted

Origin of outblot

From out- + blot.

Questions about outblot

What does outblot mean?
Outblot means to blot out.
How do you use outblot in a sentence?
Each object in our humble cot Reminds me of those happy days, And time itself can ne'er outblot The memory of thy winning ways.
What part of speech is outblot?
Outblot is a verb.
What is the past tense of outblot?
The past tense of outblot is outblotted.

Words near outblot in the dictionary

  1. outblooms
  2. outblossom
  3. outblossomed
  4. outblossoming
  5. outblossoms
  6. outblot
  7. outblots
  8. outblotted
  9. outblotting
  10. outblow
  11. outblowing

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