The brief was writ and blotted all with gore.
--Gascoigne.
2. To impair; to damage; to mar; to soil.
It blots thy beauty, as frosts do bite the meads.
--Shak.
3. To stain with infamy; to disgrace.
Blot not thy innocence with guiltless blood. --Rowe.
4. To obliterate, as writing with ink; to cancel; to efface;
-- generally with out; as, to blot out a word or a
sentence. Often figuratively; as, to blot out offenses.
One act like this blots out a thousand crimes.
--Dryden.
5. To obscure; to eclipse; to shadow.
He sung how earth blots the moon's gilded wane.
--Cowley.
6. To dry, as writing, with blotting paper.
Syn: To obliterate; expunge; erase; efface; cancel; tarnish;
disgrace; blur; sully; smear; smutch.