outblot
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outblot (third-person singular simple present outblots, present participle outblotting, simple past and past participle outblotted)
- (transitive, literary) To blot out.
- 1882, Austin Dobson, “More Poets Yet!”, in Charlotte Fiske Bates Rogé, editor, The Cambridge Book of Poetry and Song, page 722:
- For who shall stay The first blind motions of the May? Who shall outblot the morning glow: Or stem the full heart's overflow: Who?
- 1888, Amélie Rives, The Man of the Golden Fillet:
- 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;
- 1902, William Cryer, Lays After Labour: Or, Evening Songs, page 243:
- Each object in our humble cot Reminds me of those happy days, And time itself can ne'er outblot The memory of thy winning ways.
- 1958, Dvijendralāla Rāya, Mevar Patan; Or, Fall of Mevar: A Play in Five Acts, page 124:
- Descend, O darkness, and outblot this scene of ignominy and shame.
- 1983, Hans Wilhelm Schüssler, Signal processing II, page 292:
- These spurious intensity distributions tend to outblot faint stains or to enhance the interference between stains belonging to the same cluster.