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blot out

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Verb1.blot out - make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing; "a hidden message"; "a veiled threat"
obliterate, veil, hide, obscure
alter, change, modify - cause to change; make different; cause a transformation; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue"
efface, obliterate - remove completely from recognition or memory; "efface the memory of the time in the camps"
mystify - make mysterious; "mystify the story"
Translations
? blot out
vt sep
(lit) words → unleserlich machen, verschmieren
(fig: = hide from view) landscape, sun → verdecken; (= obliterate) memories → auslöschen; pain → betäuben


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"And I have seen it," the girl retorted, with a note of grimness in her tone, "when it was a great deal more like the other place--stillness that seems almost to stifle you, grey mists that choke your breath and blot out everything; nothing but the gurgling of a little water, and the sighing--the most melancholy sighing you ever heard--of the wind in our ragged elms.
The Kingdom of the Blind by Oppenheim, E. Phillips View in context
They both alike tried in later life to blot out from their memories all the monstrous, shameful incidents of that morbid period, when both were rarely in a normal frame of mind, both were rarely quite themselves.
Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
In a hundred places they had applied the torch, and columns of dense smoke were rising above the city as though to blot out from the eye of heaven the horrid sights beneath.
A Princess of Mars by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
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