noun
Meaning 1
A blemish, spot or stain made by a coloured substance.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
blot
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /blɒt/
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rhymes with -ɒt
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General-American: /blɑt/
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noun
Meaning 2
A stain on someone's reputation or character; a disgrace.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
A method of transferring proteins, DNA or RNA, onto a carrier.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biochemistry, biology, chemistry, microbiology, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
An exposed piece in backgammon.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: backgammon, games
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 5
To cause a blot (on something) by spilling a coloured substance.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 6
To soak up or absorb liquid.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
Examples
- This paper blots easily.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 7
To dry (writing, etc.) with blotting paper.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 8
To spot, stain, or bespatter, as with ink.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: asperse, splatter, sprinkle
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 9
To impair; to damage; to mar; to soil.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: dirty, pollute, ruin, ball up, blight, bumble, botch, bugger up, bungle, contaminate, corrupt, crab, deprave, disrupt, disturb, foil, fuck up, jack up, mar, mess up, mishandle, mommick, put a crimp in, queer, screw up, soil, sour, spoil, stain, undo, upset, turn upside down, upset the applecart, vitiate, assoil, beclart, bedaub, bedirty, imbrue (especially with blood), bedizen, befile, befilth, befoul, begrime, beray, beshit, besmear, besmirch, besully, bewray, blacken, blot, blur, clat, darken, defile, dirten, elt, file, foul, gunk, gunk up, inquinate, scunge, sling mud, slotter, slur, smear, smirch, smudge, smut, smutch, soss, sowl, spot, sullow, sully, tarnish, uggle
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 10
To stain with infamy; to disgrace.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: blemish, infamize, stain, assassinate, asperse, backbite, badmouth, befoul, belibel, besmirch, besmear, bewray, blacken, blame, blaze, blot, blur, calumniate, calumny, chat shit, chat shite, cloud, defame, demonize, denigrate, deprave, depreciate, detract, dirty, discredit, disgrace, disparage, disrepute, diss, drag through the mud, forgab, forspeak, foul, lampoon, libel, malign, monsterize, muddy, reproach, revile, scandal, shit-talk, slag, slander, smear, smirch, spatter, spot, speak ill of, stab, sully, talk shit, talk shite, talk trash, tarnish, torch, traduce, trash-talk, unflatter, vilify, vilipend, villainize, wrong
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 11
To obliterate, as writing with ink; to cancel; to efface; generally with out.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Examples
- to blot out a word or a sentence
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: erase, race
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 12
To obscure; to eclipse; to shadow.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: becloud, bedarken, beshadow
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 13
To sell illegal drugs, to deal, to push.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Multicultural-London-English, transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 14
To hit a blot.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Topics: backgammon, games
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 15
an act that brings discredit to the person who does it
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- he made a huge blot on his copybook
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: smear, smirch, spot, stain
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: mistake, error, fault
noun
Meaning 16
a blemish made by dirt
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- he had a smudge on his cheek
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: smudge, spot, daub, smear, smirch, slur
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: blemish, defect, mar
Narrower terms: blotch, splodge, splotch, fingermark, fingerprint, inkblot
verb
Meaning 17
make a spot or mark onto
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- The wine spotted the tablecloth
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: spot, fleck, blob
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: change surface
Narrower terms: splotch, tarnish, stain, maculate, sully, defile, speckle, bespeckle, spatter, bespatter
verb
Meaning 18
dry (ink) with blotting paper
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: absorb, suck, imbibe, soak up, sop up, suck up, draw, take in, take up
History
Etymology
From Middle English blot (“blot, spot, stain, blemish”). Perhaps from Old Norse *blettr (“blot, stain”) (only attested in documents from after Old Norse transitioned to Icelandic blettur), or from Old French bloche (“clod of earth”).
Across languages
Translations
75 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: петно (petno) — blemish, spot or stain
- Czech: skvrna — blemish, spot or stain
- Czech: kaňka — blemish, spot or stain
- Danish: plet — blemish, spot or stain
- Danish: klat — blemish, spot or stain
- Dutch: vlek — blemish, spot or stain
- Esperanto: makulo — blemish, spot or stain
- Finnish: tahra — blemish, spot or stain
- Finnish: väritahra — blemish, spot or stain
- French: tache — blemish, spot or stain
- French: pâté — blemish, spot or stain
- German: Fleck — blemish, spot or stain
- German: Klecks — blemish, spot or stain
- Ido: makulo — blemish, spot or stain
- Italian: macchia — blemish, spot or stain
- Kyrgyz: так (tak) — blemish, spot or stain
- Kyrgyz: төгүлгөн сыя (tögülgön sıya) — blemish, spot or stain
- Portuguese: mancha — blemish, spot or stain
- Portuguese: borrão — blemish, spot or stain
- Russian: пятно́ (pjatnó) — blemish, spot or stain
- Russian: кля́кса (kljáksa) — blemish, spot or stain
- Spanish: mancha — blemish, spot or stain
- Spanish: mácula — blemish, spot or stain
- Spanish: parchón — blemish, spot or stain
- Spanish: manchurrón — blemish, spot or stain
- Swedish: fläck — blemish, spot or stain
- Swedish: plump — blemish, spot or stain
- Swedish: bläckplump — blemish, spot or stain
- Bulgarian: позор (pozor) — stain on someone's reputation or character
- Bulgarian: безчестие (bezčestie) — stain on someone's reputation or character
- Czech: skvrna — stain on someone's reputation or character
- Czech: kaňka — stain on someone's reputation or character
- Danish: plet — stain on someone's reputation or character
- Dutch: schandvlek — stain on someone's reputation or character
- Finnish: tahra — stain on someone's reputation or character
- Finnish: vika — stain on someone's reputation or character
- French: souillure — stain on someone's reputation or character
- German: Schandfleck — stain on someone's reputation or character
- Kyrgyz: так (tak) — stain on someone's reputation or character
- Kyrgyz: уят (uyat) — stain on someone's reputation or character
- Portuguese: mácula — stain on someone's reputation or character
- Russian: позо́р (pozór) — stain on someone's reputation or character
- Russian: пятно́ (pjatnó) — stain on someone's reputation or character
- Spanish: desdoro — stain on someone's reputation or character
- Bulgarian: гол (gol) — backgammon: exposed piece
- Bulgarian: зацапвам (zacapvam) — to cause a blot
- Bulgarian: опетнявам (opetnjavam) — to cause a blot
- Czech: poskvrnit — to cause a blot
- Czech: pokaňkat — to cause a blot
- Czech: postříkat — to cause a blot
- Finnish: tahrata — to cause a blot
- French: tacher — to cause a blot
- German: beflecken — to cause a blot
- German: kleckern — to cause a blot
- Italian: macchiare — to cause a blot
- Portuguese: manchar — to cause a blot
- Portuguese: borrar — to cause a blot
- Romanian: păta — to cause a blot
- Spanish: emborronar — to cause a blot
- Spanish: manchar — to cause a blot
- Bulgarian: попивам (popivam) — intransitive: to absorb liquid
- Czech: sát — intransitive: to absorb liquid
- Czech: nasát — intransitive: to absorb liquid
- Czech: vysát — intransitive: to absorb liquid
- Finnish: imeä — intransitive: to absorb liquid
- Finnish: imaista — intransitive: to absorb liquid
- Finnish: imeytyä — intransitive: to absorb liquid
- Italian: assorbire — intransitive: to absorb liquid
- Spanish: enjugar — transitive: to dry with blotting
- Spanish: enjutar — transitive: to dry with blotting
- Spanish: entrapar — transitive: to dry with blotting
- Bulgarian: заличавам (zaličavam) — to hide, obscure or obliterate
- Czech: vymazat — to hide, obscure or obliterate
- Finnish: piilotella — to hide, obscure or obliterate
- German: ablöschen — to hide, obscure or obliterate