VERB
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make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing
a veiled threat
a hidden message
How To Use blot out In A Sentence
- And if you ever attempt to go forth again to find out new wonders in the world, I shall clasp you round with my arms, as I do now, and keep you prisoner against your will; and if you say 'Farewell' a hundred times to me, I shall blot out that sad word every time with my lips, and put a better one in its place, until my word conquers yours. A Crystal Age
- She just wanted to sleep and blot out the terrifying events of the day.
- She just wanted to sleep and blot out the terrifying events of the day.
- Blot out excess moisture with a terry cloth towel.
- These four millions of people, must now be educated and christianized -- for you must know that the barbarism of slavery possessed a tendency to heathenize and blot out all signs of manly integrity and Christian virtues, and who better than the A.M. E. Church, can perform this labor? An Apology for African Methodism
- He had known the Great Man at his zenith; he had wrestled with him in the hour of discomfiture; he had preached for his benefit that famous sermon on the text: ` Hide Thy Face from my sins, and blot out all my Iniquities '; he had witnessed the hero's awful progress from Newgate to Tyburn; he had seen him shiver at the nubbing-cheat; he had composed for him a last dying speech, which did not shame the king of thief-takers, and whose sale brought a comfortable profit to the widow. A Book of Scoundrels
- More like to blot out his guilty conscience. The Sun
- The downside of this is that the noise of running a tap, cleaning your teeth or doing the washing-up can blot out words and phrases leaving you astonished or bewildered by what you think you heard.
- In a small house with a tall actor, the rake and actor's frame easily manage to blot out a lot of the action.
- He had known the Great Man at his zenith; he had wrestled with him in the hour of discomfiture; he had preached for his benefit that famous sermon on the text: 'Hide Thy Face from my sins, and blot out all my Iniquities'; he had witnessed the hero's awful progress from Newgate to Tyburn; he had seen him shiver at the nubbing-cheat; he had composed for him a last dying speech, which did not shame the king of thief-takers, and whose sale brought a comfortable profit to the widow. A Book of Scoundrels