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outblot en · VERB

Etymology

From out- + blot.

Meanings

1. (literary, transitive) To blot out.
   • As she hastened onward, his recollected voice made music in her ears, while his face remembered came ever between her and the sunlight, even as a past joy will outblot a present gladness; and she though how grand he was, and of what noble bearing, and of the pride in his calm face; 1888, Amélie Rives, The Man of the Golden Fillet:
   • Each object in our humble cot Reminds me of those happy days, And time itself can ne'er outblot The memory of thy winning ways. 1902, William Cryer, Lays After Labour: Or, Evening Songs, page 243:
   • Descend, O darkness, and outblot this scene of ignominy and shame. 1958, Dvijendralāla Rāya, Mevar Patan; Or, Fall of Mevar: A Play in Five Acts, page 124:
   • These spurious intensity distributions tend to outblot faint stains or to enhance the interference between stains belonging to the same cluster. 1983, Hans Wilhelm Schüssler, Signal processing II, page 292:
   • For who shall stay The first blind motions of the May? Who shall outblot the morning glow: Or stem the full heart's overflow: Who? 1882, Austin Dobson, “More Poets Yet!”, in Charlotte Fiske Bates Rogé, editor, The Cambridge Book of Poetry and Song, page 722:

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