"outblot" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: outblots [present, singular, third-person], outblotting [participle, present], outblotted [participle, past], outblotted [past]
Etymology: From out- + blot. Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|out|blot}} out- + blot Head templates: {{en-verb|++}} outblot (third-person singular simple present outblots, present participle outblotting, simple past and past participle outblotted)
  1. (transitive, literary) To blot out. Tags: literary, transitive

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1888, Amélie Rives, The Man of the Golden Fillet:",
          "text": "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;",
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          "ref": "1902, William Cryer, Lays After Labour: Or, Evening Songs, page 243:",
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          "ref": "1958, Dvijendralāla Rāya, Mevar Patan; Or, Fall of Mevar: A Play in Five Acts, page 124:",
          "text": "Descend, O darkness, and outblot this scene of ignominy and shame.",
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