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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of blot.

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Examples

  • And if anybody that belonged to the band told the secrets, he must have his throat cut, and then have his carcass burnt up and the ashes scattered all around, so that not even the devil could send him back as a bagger, and his name blotted off of the list with blood and never mentioned again by the gang, but have a curse put on it and be forgot forever.

    The War of The Worlds H. G. Wells 2009

  • Homer reports that on the day of the slaughter the sun is blotted from the sky, possibly a reference to an eclipse.

    Scholars set date for Odysseus’ bloody homecoming « Isegoria 2008

  • It's hard to decide which is wreckier-- a wal-mart cake with a horrible correction/misspelling I mean, once you see that round confetti, your expectations drop or a decently decorated cake with a name blotted out in a DOUBLE LAYER of frosting applied with the cake icing tip!

    There, I Fixed It 2009

  • And if anybody that belonged to the band told the secrets, he must have his throat cut, and then have his carcass burnt up and the ashes scattered all around, and his name blotted off of the list with blood and never mentioned again by the gang, but have a curse put on it and be forgot forever.

    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 2003

  • Hadrian (whose bones may they be ground, and his name blotted out) once asked Rabbi Joshua ben

    Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala Various

  • His life was threatened and his name blotted out as far as the impeachers could do it, and the impression prevails generally among my enemies that the Shoffner act was unconstitutional.

    Memoirs of W. W. Holden, 1911

  • And if anybody that belonged to the band told the secrets, he must have his throat cut, and then have his carcass burnt up and the ashes scattered all around, and his name blotted off of the list with blood and never mentioned again by the gang, but have a curse put on it and be forgot forever.

    Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 1884

  • And if anybody that belonged to the band told the secrets, he must have his throat cut, and then have his carcass burnt up and the ashes scattered all around, and his name blotted off of the list with blood and never mentioned again by the gang, but have a curse put on it and be forgot forever.

    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain 1872

  • Set him on the throne of the world, with all creatures at his foot, and his name blotted from the book of life.

    Sermons. Volume the Second. 1808-1892 1848

  • Secondly, Whether a man be bound to prefer the glory of God before his own eternal happiness, as Moses and St. Paul seem to have done; the one in being content to have his name blotted out of the book of life, the other to be anathema from Christ, for the salvation of Israel?

    The Works of Dr. John Tillotson, Late Archbishop of Canterbury. Vol. 09. 1630-1694 1820

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