outblot

present singular third person outblots · participle present outblotting · participle past outblotted · past outblotted

1. literarytransitiveTo blot out.

   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

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   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

   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

   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