BLOT OUT Synonyms: 148 Similar and Opposite Words

blot out

verb

Definition of blot out

as in to eradicate

to destroy all traces of blotted out all evidence of tampering with the explosive device

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as in to hide

to keep secret or shut off from view bushes blotted out the shed from our view

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Recent Examples of blot out There’s light pollution — and then there are giant orbital space mirrors that blot out the night sky. — Frank Landymore, Futurism, 15 July 2026 Ancient caravan routes are now mere remnants, quickly blotted out by the path of red trucks. — Cristina Dorador, The Dial, 14 July 2026 The sad fact of her victimization and her struggles in life can threaten to blot out the subtler, trickier elements of her magic. — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 1 June 2026 Only those Avs, the ones from five years earlier, didn’t have a big guy like him to win scrums, screen goalies, plow defensemen and blot out the sun. — Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 6 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for blot out

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Verb

Following the campaign, Rome aggressively eradicated and restructured local settlements, while instituting repressive laws designed to assimilate the area into the greater empire.

— Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 30 July 2026
Antibacterial wipes can also be beneficial for eradicating dirt and germs from both handles and zippers.

— Louise Parks, Martha Stewart, 27 July 2026

Definition of eradicate

Verb

The narrator spends years assembling the truth of this death, concealed by his family, and discovers that Calcutta and Dhaka experienced those riots as mirror images of each other.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 29 July 2026
The sign concealed a smaller building that was a holdout on the corner of West 34th Street and Broadway when Macy's was built in the early 1900s.

— ABC News, ABC News, 29 July 2026

Definition of conceal

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Garvey said the journal, which published quarterly from 1993 to 2005, was premised on the idea of abolishing whiteness as a social category that situates white people above other racial groups.

— Harmeet Kaur, CNN Money, 30 July 2026
In his view, abolishing the proscenium would help dismantle ossified hierarchies.

— Justin Davidson, Curbed, 29 July 2026

Definition of abolish

Verb

Yet statistics alone obscure another story and one that is rarely centered in public memory.

— Jallicia Jolly, Forbes.com, 26 July 2026
Their selective invocations of Washington may have obscured his complicity, but some abolitionists truly believed doing so would help bring the horror of American slavery to an end.

— John Garrison Marks, The Atlantic, 25 July 2026

Definition of obscure

Verb

The two once presented a live demo minutes after a computer cloud crash wiped out their materials, winning anyway after Andreou pitched the product entirely from memory.

— Sebastian Herrera, Fortune, 27 June 2026
Widespread flooding across Kentucky has left at least four dead Saturday, prompting dozens of rescues after heavy rains wiped out bridges, inundated roads and flooded homes, with more significant rainfall on the way.

— Emma Tucker, CNN Money, 27 June 2026

Definition of wipe out

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