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单词 blot out
释义 blot out
transitive verb
1.
 a. : to alter (as writing) by covering with a blot : correct or cancel (something written) by blotting
  < my name be blotted out from the book of life — Shakespeare >
 b. : to render insignificant or inconsequential : withdraw from awareness or need for consideration
  < time will blot out these bitter memories >
  < one act like this blots out a thousand crimes — John Dryden >
2. : to make obscure or invisible
 < mist slowly blotted out the hills >
: hide, conceal, darken
 < acquired prejudices … can spread a fog over verbal messages, blotting out common meanings, distorting common experiences — Stuart Chase >
3. : destroy, annihilate, kill
 < blot out the nations of men — Lewis Mumford >
Synonyms: see erase
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