BLOTCH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does blotch mean? 

• BLOTCH (noun)
  The noun BLOTCH has 1 sense:

1. an irregularly shaped spot

  Familiarity information: BLOTCH used as a noun is very rare.

• BLOTCH (verb)
  The verb BLOTCH has 1 sense:

1. mark with spots or blotches of different color or shades of color as if stained

  Familiarity information: BLOTCH used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLOTCH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An irregularly shaped spot

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

blotch; splodge; splotch

Hypernyms ("blotch" is a kind of...):

blot; daub; slur; smear; smirch; smudge; spot (a blemish made by dirt)

Derivation:

blotch (mark with spots or blotches of different color or shades of color as if stained)

blotchy (marred by discolored spots or blotches)

blotchy (marked with irregularly shaped spots or blots)

• BLOTCH (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Mark with spots or blotches of different color or shades of color as if stained

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Synonyms:

blotch; mottle; streak

Hypernyms (to "blotch" is one way to...):

color; color in; colorise; colorize; colour; colour in; colourise; colourize (add color to)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

blotch (an irregularly shaped spot)

 Context examples 

For a long time I lay and watched these red, quivering blotches of light.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Back danced the youngster, disengaging himself in beautiful style, but with two angry red blotches over the lower line of his ribs.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There were no carpets and no signs of any furniture above the ground floor, while the plaster was peeling off the walls, and the damp was breaking through in green, unhealthy blotches.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was only when I caught sight of the red blotch on Mrs. Harker's forehead that I was brought back to reality.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The whole face of the country was scarred and disfigured, mottled over with the black blotches of burned farm-steadings, and the gray, gaunt gable-ends of what had been chateaux.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You will have to comply, but if it’s your child, having this on the student record could become a blotch on his or her college admission application.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

I put up at the old inn, and went down to look at the sea; staggering along the street, which was strewn with sand and seaweed, and with flying blotches of sea-foam; afraid of falling slates and tiles; and holding by people I met, at angry corners.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

It was a widespread, comfortable-looking building, two-storied, slate-roofed, with great yellow blotches of lichen upon the grey walls.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Repeated falls had turned the men brown, with a horrible mottling of crimson blotches.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There, clinging to the stout halliards of the sheet, he gazed with amazement at the long lines of black waves, each with its curling ridge of foam, racing in endless succession from out the inexhaustible west. A huge sombre cloud, flecked with livid blotches, stretched over the whole seaward sky-line, with long ragged streamers whirled out in front of it.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)