Definitions

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Marked or covered with blotches.

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  • adjective Covered in blotches.
  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of blotch.

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  • adjective marked with irregularly shaped spots or blots

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Examples

  • And the immersive nastiness of their aesthetic — decayed bathrooms, foul workshops, seeping industrial spaces, blades blotched with rust — distilled the slasher-flick elixir: atmosphere.

    Don’t Fear the Reaper 2009

  • And the immersive nastiness of their aesthetic — decayed bathrooms, foul workshops, seeping industrial spaces, blades blotched with rust — distilled the slasher-flick elixir: atmosphere.

    Don’t Fear the Reaper 2009

  • In the middle distance, on the broken foothills surrounding the crater, the greenery was blotched with black and gray swaths of bare or scorched earth.

    Backlash « A Fly in Amber 2009

  • And the immersive nastiness of their aesthetic — decayed bathrooms, foul workshops, seeping industrial spaces, blades blotched with rust — distilled the slasher-flick elixir: atmosphere.

    Don’t Fear the Reaper 2009

  • The skin on his face was dull and blotched, his eyes drained of that familiar childlike wonder.

    Jan Herman: Writers on Fighters Jan Herman 2011

  • And the immersive nastiness of their aesthetic — decayed bathrooms, foul workshops, seeping industrial spaces, blades blotched with rust — distilled the slasher-flick elixir: atmosphere.

    Don’t Fear the Reaper 2009

  • He rounded a slight bend in the road, which then turned to gravel intermittently blotched with mud.

    Empty Homes, Empty Windows Peter Kispert 2011

  • He rounded a slight bend in the road, which then turned to gravel intermittently blotched with mud.

    Empty Windows, Empty Rooms Peter Kispert 2011

  • Her hands shook, and her face was blotched and swollen from weeping.

    Invisible Child MaryAnne Kolton 2011

  • The skin on his face was dull and blotched, his eyes drained of that familiar childlike wonder.

    Jan Herman: Writers on Fighters Jan Herman 2011

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