Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to blot
Participle: blotted
Gerund: blotting
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | blot |
| you | blot |
| he;she;it | blots |
| we | blot |
| you | blot |
| they | blot |
Perfect
| I | have blotted |
| you | have blotted |
| he;she;it | has blotted |
| we | have blotted |
| you | have blotted |
| they | have blotted |
Past
| I | blotted |
| you | blotted |
| he;she;it | blotted |
| we | blotted |
| you | blotted |
| they | blotted |
Pluperfect
| I | had blotted |
| you | had blotted |
| he;she;it | had blotted |
| we | had blotted |
| you | had blotted |
| they | had blotted |
Future
| I | will blot |
| you | will blot |
| he;she;it | will blot |
| we | will blot |
| you | will blot |
| they | will blot |
Future Perfect
| I | will have blotted |
| you | will have blotted |
| he;she;it | will have blotted |
| we | will have blotted |
| you | will have blotted |
| they | will have blotted |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | blot |
| you | blot |
| he;she;it | blot |
| we | blot |
| you | blot |
| they | blot |
Perfect
| I | have blotted |
| you | have blotted |
| he;she;it | have blotted |
| we | have blotted |
| you | have blotted |
| they | have blotted |
Imperfect
| I | blotted |
| you | blotted |
| he;she;it | blotted |
| we | blotted |
| you | blotted |
| they | blotted |
Pluperfect
| I | had blotted |
| you | had blotted |
| he;she;it | had blotted |
| we | had blotted |
| you | had blotted |
| they | had blotted |
Conditional
Present
| I | would blot |
| you | would blot |
| he;she;it | would blot |
| we | would blot |
| you | would blot |
| they | would blot |
Perfect
| I | would have blotted |
| you | would have blotted |
| he;she;it | would have blotted |
| we | would have blotted |
| you | would have blotted |
| they | would have blotted |
Imperative
| you | blot |
| we | Let's blot |
| you | blot |
Verbs conjugated like 'blot'
abet,
abhor,
abut,
acquit,
admit,
affrap,
allot,
alum,
amel,
amit,
anagram,
anvil,
apparel,
aret,
arret,
assot,
astun,
attrap,
augur,
avel, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'blot'
blat,
blet,
blit,
bloat,
blob,
blog,
blop,
blote,
blow,
boot,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to try to diminish the reputation of
- asperse, assassinate, backbite, badmouth, belibel, belittle, besmirch, blaze, blemish, calumniate, calumny, cloud, cut down, defame, demonize, denigrate, derogate, detract, discredit, disgrace, disparage, diss, forgab, infamize, libel, monster, reproach, scandal, shit-talk, slander, speak ill of, talk shit, talk shite, talk trash, traduce, trash-talk, vilify, vilipend, vituperate
- to make physically dirty
- assoil, beclart, bedaub, bedirty, bedizen, befile, befoul, begrime, beray, besully, bewray, blacken, blur, contaminate, darken, denigrate, dirty, drag through the mud, dull, foil, foul, gunk, gunk up, inquinate, pollute, sling mud, slotter, slur, smutch, soss, sowl, spot, stain, sullow, taint, tarnish, uggle
- stain
- mar, blotch, sully, deface, spot, smudge, bespatter, disfigure
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle English blot (“blot, spot, stain, blemish”). Perhaps from Old Norse *blettr (“blot, stain”) (only attested in documents from after Old Norse transitioned to Icelandic blettur), or from Old French bloche (“clod of earth”).
Verbs referencing "blot"
Welsh
blotio.
Sample Sentences
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[...] heard, but dimly seen; the broad, white, glistening track, that follows in the vessel 's wake; the men on the look-out forward, who would be scarcely visible against the dark sky, but for their blotting out some score of glistening stars; the helmsman at the wheel, with the illuminated card before him, shining, a speck of light amidst the darkness, like something sentient and of Divine [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] must be prepared to find their faces very low in the scale of intellectual expression. But the darkness—not of skin, but mind—which meets the stranger 's eye at every turn; the brutalizing and blotting out of all fairer characters traced by Nature 's hand; immeasurably outdo his worst belief. That travelled creation of the great satirist 's brain, who fresh from living among horses, peered from a [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)