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BLOTTED OUT
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Reduced to nothingness
Synonyms:
blotted out; obliterate; obliterated
Classified under:
Similar:
destroyed (spoiled or ruined or demolished)
Context examples:
When this was done, and he knew that all was in train, he blotted out his traces, as he thought, by murdering his agent.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
His long months of culture and refinement shuddered at the sight; then the present was blotted out of his consciousness and the ghosts of the past possessed him, and he was Martin Eden, just returned from sea and fighting Cheese-Face on the Eighth Street Bridge.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
See, how our house and church are lessening in the distance; how the grave beneath the tree is blotted out by intervening objects; how the spire points upwards from my old playground no more, and the sky is empty!
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
And at once, as in an instant’s leap, the sun was blotted out, there was no sky, even our mastheads were lost to view, and our horizon was such as tear-blinded eyes may see.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Down came another blinding rush of driving snow, and the whole landscape was blotted out.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
All these were blotted out by a grotesque and terrible nightmare brood—frowsy, shuffling creatures from the pavements of Whitechapel, gin-bloated hags of the stews, and all the vast hell's following of harpies, vile-mouthed and filthy, that under the guise of monstrous female form prey upon sailors, the scrapings of the ports, the scum and slime of the human pit.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
