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View definitions for blot out

blot out

verb as in eclipse

verb as in efface

verb as in extinguish

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Example Sentences

Like Amalek, the Biblical evil-doer whose name we are enjoined to “blot out.”

But we must remember not only to not forget, but to blot out the enemy—not mercifully, but through genocide.

I am, I am he that blot out thy iniquities for my own sake, and I will not remember thy sins.

Men surged forward to close in and blot out the glow from the killer's fingers.

She interrupted me with a little heart-broken cry and clapped her hands to her eyes to blot out some horrid picture.

He was the last sacrifice, to blot out the sins of all who have faith in him.

Then, high on a plateau of stone above the tall man's head, Scott saw the stars blot out.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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