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blot out
Idioms and Phrases
Obliterate, wipe out of existence or memory, as in At least one Indian nation was blotted out as the pioneers moved west , or The trauma of the accident blotted out all her memory of recent events . This idiom, first recorded in 1516, uses the verb to blot in the sense of making something illegible by spotting or staining it with ink. The New Testament has it (Acts 3:19): “Repent ye ... that your sins may be blotted out.”Example Sentences
Foster lamented that the "dark cloud" that is Trump has blotted out what should be a moment "historic to women and girls" of the Harris candidacy.
In a later bid to blot out those memories, the Yankees leveled that stadium and built another one across the street.
Will it be a fiery landscape where sizzling sidewalks cause second-degree burns, wildfire smoke blots out the sun, and water flows only sometimes, and mostly not at all?
And few things generate awe like watching the moon blot out the sun and plunge a sunny day into erie darkness.
In the path of totality, as the moon blots out the sun, it will create a spot-shaped shadow that will race eastward as the sun moves westward in the sky.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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