Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary - blot out
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Blot out
blot out
transitive verb Date: 1530 1. to make obscure, insignificant, or inconsequential 2. wipe out, destroy
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1.
1. закрывать, заслонять the landscape was blotted out by the fog —- все было окутано туманом 2. уничтожать, разрушать the monarchy was blotted out —- монархия была низложена 3. ам. сл. убивать; стереть в порошок ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
2.
1. If one thing blots out another thing, it is in front of the other thing and prevents it from being seen. About the time the three climbers were halfway down, clouds blotted out the sun. ...with mist blotting everything out except the endless black of the spruce on either side. PHRASAL VERB: V P n (not pron), V n P 2. If you try to blot out a memory, you try to forget it. If one thought or memory blots out other thoughts or memories, it becomes the only one that you can think about. Are you saying that she’s trying to blot out all memory of the incident?... The boy has gaps in his mind about it. He is blotting certain things out... She has suffered an extremely unhappy childhood, but simply blotted it out of her memory. = block out PHRASAL VERB: V P n (not pron), V n P, V n P of n ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
3.
{v. phr.} 1. To obstruct; cover; obscure. * /The high-rise building in front of our apartment house blots out the view of the ocean./ 2. To wipe out of one's memory. * /Jane can't remember the details when she was attacked in the streets; she blotted it out of her memory./ ...Английский словарь американских идиом
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