blot out

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Verb

1. Used other than with a figurative or idiomatic meaning: see blot, out
2. (transitive) To obscure.

   The moon blotted out the sun and all was dark.

3. (transitive) To make indecipherable; to obliterate.
   • 1886, Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

     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.

4. (transitive) To annihilate
   • Book of Genesis 7.4

     And every living substance that I have made will I blot out from off the face of the earth.

Translations

• Italian: oscurare

Translations

• French: effacer
• Italian: scomparire

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