"blot out" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "blots out",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "blotting out",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "blotted out",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "blotted out",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "blot out (third-person singular simple present blots out, present participle blotting out, simple past and past participle blotted out)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "31 13 26 30",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see blot, out."
      ],
      "id": "en-blot_out-en-verb-Ti4yXf4B",
      "links": [
        [
          "blot",
          "blot#English"
        ],
        [
          "out",
          "out#English"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "31 13 26 30",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The moon blotted out the sun and all was dark.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1892, James Yoxall, chapter 5, in The Lonely Pyramid",
          "text": "The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom.[…]Roaring, leaping, pouncing, the tempest raged about the wanderers, drowning and blotting out their forms with sandy spume.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1960 January, G. Freeman Allen, “\"Condor\"—British Railways' fastest freight train”, in Trains Illustrated, page 48",
          "text": "From Keighley onwards we had obviously returned to civilisation, for the surrounding country was now studded with the sodium street lights of suburbia and a thickening industrial haze was blotting out the moon.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To obscure."
      ],
      "id": "en-blot_out-en-verb-u4Ill7mY",
      "links": [
        [
          "obscure",
          "obscure"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To obscure."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "2 93 3 1",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "zaličavam",
          "sense": "to obscure",
          "word": "заличавам"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "2 93 3 1",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "skrivam napǎlno",
          "sense": "to obscure",
          "word": "скривам напълно"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "2 93 3 1",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to obscure",
          "word": "peittää näkyvistä"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "2 93 3 1",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "to obscure",
          "word": "oscurare"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "2 93 3 1",
          "code": "gd",
          "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
          "sense": "to obscure",
          "word": "dubh às"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "2 93 3 1",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "to obscure",
          "word": "skymma"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "31 13 26 30",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To make indecipherable; to obliterate."
      ],
      "id": "en-blot_out-en-verb-1KXqfage",
      "links": [
        [
          "indecipherable",
          "indecipherable"
        ],
        [
          "obliterate",
          "obliterate"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To make indecipherable; to obliterate."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "4 7 67 22",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "to obliterate",
          "word": "effacer"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "4 7 67 22",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "to obliterate",
          "word": "scomparire"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "4 7 67 22",
          "code": "la",
          "lang": "Latin",
          "sense": "to obliterate",
          "word": "oblitterō"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "4 7 67 22",
          "code": "la",
          "lang": "Latin",
          "sense": "to obliterate",
          "word": "expungō"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "4 7 67 22",
          "code": "gd",
          "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
          "sense": "to obliterate",
          "word": "dubh às"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "31 13 26 30",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "24 24 22 31",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs with particle (out)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To annihilate"
      ],
      "id": "en-blot_out-en-verb-k6vizGIM",
      "links": [
        [
          "annihilate",
          "annihilate"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To annihilate"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "blot out"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English phrasal verbs",
    "English phrasal verbs with particle (out)",
    "English verbs"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "blots out",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "blotting out",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "blotted out",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "blotted out",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "blot out (third-person singular simple present blots out, present participle blotting out, simple past and past participle blotted out)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see blot, out."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "blot",
          "blot#English"
        ],
        [
          "out",
          "out#English"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The moon blotted out the sun and all was dark.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1892, James Yoxall, chapter 5, in The Lonely Pyramid",
          "text": "The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom.[…]Roaring, leaping, pouncing, the tempest raged about the wanderers, drowning and blotting out their forms with sandy spume.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1960 January, G. Freeman Allen, “\"Condor\"—British Railways' fastest freight train”, in Trains Illustrated, page 48",
          "text": "From Keighley onwards we had obviously returned to civilisation, for the surrounding country was now studded with the sodium street lights of suburbia and a thickening industrial haze was blotting out the moon.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To obscure."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "obscure",
          "obscure"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To obscure."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To make indecipherable; to obliterate."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "indecipherable",
          "indecipherable"
        ],
        [
          "obliterate",
          "obliterate"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To make indecipherable; to obliterate."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To annihilate"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "annihilate",
          "annihilate"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To annihilate"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "zaličavam",
      "sense": "to obscure",
      "word": "заличавам"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "skrivam napǎlno",
      "sense": "to obscure",
      "word": "скривам напълно"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to obscure",
      "word": "peittää näkyvistä"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to obscure",
      "word": "oscurare"
    },
    {
      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "to obscure",
      "word": "dubh às"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to obscure",
      "word": "skymma"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to obliterate",
      "word": "effacer"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to obliterate",
      "word": "scomparire"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "to obliterate",
      "word": "oblitterō"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "to obliterate",
      "word": "expungō"
    },
    {
      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "to obliterate",
      "word": "dubh às"
    }
  ],
  "word": "blot out"
}