Synonyms for blot
blɒtblot

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1. blot

   Whatever mars the beauty or completeness of an object is a blemish, whether original, as squinting eyes, or the result of accident or disease, etc., as the pits of smallpox. A blemish is superficial; a flaw or taint is in structure or substance. In the moral sense, we speak of a blot or stain upon reputation; a flaw or taint in character. A defect is the want or lack of something; fault, primarily a failing, is something that fails of an apparent intent or disappoints a natural expectation; thus a sudden dislocation or displacement of geological strata is called a fault. Figuratively, a blemish comes from one's own ill-doing; a brand or stigma is inflicted by others; as, the brand of infamy.

   Synonyms:
   blemish, blur, brand, crack, daub, defacement, defect, deformity, dent, disfigurement, disgrace, dishonor, fault, flaw, imperfection, injury, reproach, smirch, soil, speck, spot, stain, stigma, taint, tarnish

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1. blotverb

   Synonyms:
   obscure, tarnish, spoil, sully, spot, discolor, pollute, obliterate, erase, blur, stain, blotch, smear, smutch

   Antonyms:
   elucidate, clear, absterge, perpetuate, cleanse, manifest, conserve

2. blot

   Synonyms:
   erase, efface, cancel, expunge, wipe out, obliterate, destroy

   Antonyms:
   restore, replace

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1. smudge, spot, blot, daub, smear, smirch, slurnoun

   a blemish made by dirt

   "he had a smudge on his cheek"

   Synonyms:
   smudge, bit, patch, dapple, office, speckle, pip, touch, cytosmear, place, smear, aspersion, daub, fleck, cytologic smear, maculation, slur, post, stain, malignment, position, smirch, vilification, billet, spotlight, spot, point, situation, berth, topographic point

2. blot, smear, smirch, spot, stainverb

   an act that brings discredit to the person who does it

   "he made a huge blot on his copybook"

   Synonyms:
   vilification, billet, berth, place, spot, mark, grunge, touch, dapple, discolouration, post, grease, spotlight, topographic point, point, bit, brand, position, smear, cytosmear, grime, stigma, fleck, slur, dirt, maculation, daub, speckle, malignment, smudge, filth, discoloration, smirch, situation, office, stain, soil, pip, cytologic smear, patch

3. blotverb

   dry (ink) with blotting paper

   Synonyms:
   spot, fleck, blob

4. spot, fleck, blob, blotverb

   make a spot or mark onto

   "The wine spotted the tablecloth"

   Synonyms:
   blemish, recognise, tell apart, fleck, spot, distinguish, descry, espy, spy, blob, pick out, recognize, discern, make out

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1. blotverb

   Synonyms:
   efface, obliterate, erase, cancel, expunge, rub out, blot out, scratch out, strike out

2. blotverb

   Synonyms:
   spot, stain, blur, disfigure

3. blotverb

   Synonyms:
   tarnish, sully, disgrace

4. blotnoun

   Synonyms:
   obliteration, erasure, blotting

5. blotnoun

   Synonyms:
   blur, spot, stain, blemish

6. blotnoun

   Synonyms:
   disgrace, cause of reproach

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1. blotnoun

   Synonyms:
   stain, blemish, smutch, smooch, reproach, erasure, obliteration

2. blotverb

   Synonyms:
   stain, spot, blur, blemish, sully, disgrace, tarnish, dishonor, efface, erase, delete, obliterate, expunge, obscure, eclipse

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1. List of paraphrases for "blot":

   stain, blemish, disgrace, spot, slick

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MDRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. blot

   Synonyms:
   Blotting

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1. Alan B. Watts:

   But my dear man, reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.

2. Giuseppe Mazzini:

   Love and respect woman. Look to her not only for comfort, but for strength and inspiration and the doubling of your intellectual and moral powers. Blot out from your mind any idea of superiority you have none.

3. Gary Wickersham:

   What I did that day for those 22 minutes, I look at that as a dark blot in comparison to serving my country for three years back in the'60s.

4. H Hahn Blavatsky:

   Live neither in the present nor the future, but in the eternal. The giant weed (of evil) cannot flower there this blot upon existence is wiped out by the very atmosphere of eternal thought.

5. Queretaro Gov. Mauricio Kuri:

   They were savagely injured, which is a shame and a blot on soccer, for these type of things to happen, in a place that should be for families to go and have fun. This is totally unacceptable.