資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Blot \Blot\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Blotted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Blotting}.] [Cf. Dan. plette. See 3d {Blot}.]
   1. To spot, stain, or bespatter, as with ink.

            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.

資料來源 : WordNet®

blot
     n 1: a blemish made by dirt; "he had a smudge on his cheek" [syn:
           {smudge}, {spot}, {daub}, {smear}, {smirch}, {slur}]
     2: an act that brings discredit to the person who does it; "he
        made a huge blot on his copybook" [syn: {smear}, {smirch},
         {spot}, {stain}]
     [also: {blotting}, {blotted}]

blot
     v 1: dry (ink) with blotting paper
     2: make a spot or mark onto; "The wine spotted the tablecloth"
        [syn: {spot}, {fleck}, {blob}]
     [also: {blotting}, {blotted}]

blotting
     See {blot}