BLOTTED OUT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does blotted out mean? 

• BLOTTED OUT (adjective)
  The adjective BLOTTED OUT has 1 sense:

1. reduced to nothingness

  Familiarity information: BLOTTED OUT used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLOTTED OUT (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Reduced to nothingness

Synonyms:

blotted out; obliterate; obliterated

Similar:

destroyed (spoiled or ruined or demolished)

 Context examples 

It was a foolish precipitation last Christmas, but the evil of a few days may be blotted out in part.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Darkness comes before my eyes; and, for a time, all things are blotted out of my remembrance.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

While Opportunity is powered by sunlight, which is blotted out by dust at its current location, Curiosity has a nuclear-powered battery that runs day and night.

(Martian Dust Storm Grows Global: Curiosity Captures Photos of Thickening Haze, NASA)

All that was god-like in him was blotted out.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Every trace of all that had been was blotted out.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

From the time he had left the house in Soho on the morning of the murder, he was simply blotted out; and gradually, as time drew on, Mr. Utterson began to recover from the hotness of his alarm, and to grow more at quiet with himself.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

But the whole scene of this voyage made so strong an impression on my mind, and is so deeply fixed in my memory, that, in committing it to paper I did not omit one material circumstance: however, upon a strict review, I blotted out several passages of less moment which were in my first copy, for fear of being censured as tedious and trifling, whereof travellers are often, perhaps not without justice, accused.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Consciousness was blotted out by the darkness he had so graphically described, and when I came to myself I was lying on the floor and he was smoking a cigar and regarding me thoughtfully with that old familiar light of curiosity in his eyes.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

A huge black shadow, twenty feet across, skimmed up into the air; for an instant the monster wings blotted out the stars, and then it vanished over the brow of the cliff above us.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

His steps were feeble and uncertain, just as the wolf's that trailed him were feeble and uncertain; and that night, when the shining sea was blotted out by blackness, he knew he was nearer to it by no more than four miles.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)