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blotting - definition and meaning
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verb Present participle of blot .
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They have not taken precautionary measures such as blotting out faces and license plates.
Private Sector Big Brother Lurks Among Us xtra 2007
They have not taken precautionary measures such as blotting out faces and license plates.
Archive 2007-07-01 xtra 2007
Meanwhile the person of whom he speaks IS HERE THE ACTOR-AUTHOR, whom the players, his friends, commended "wherein he faulted," namely, in not "blotting " where, in a thousand cases, Ben wishes that he HAD blotted.
Shakespeare, Bacon, and the Great Unknown Andrew Lang 1878
As it advances, it makes once-complicated processes such as blotting out the background of images, very easy to do with software.
Cult of Mac 2010
As it advances, it makes once-complicated processes such as blotting out the background of images, very easy to do with software.
Cult of Mac 2010
As it advances, it makes once-complicated processes such as blotting out the background of images, very easy to do with software.
Cult of Mac 2010
Then projected it on the wall and painted it using a "blotting " motion with the brush to maintain the rough edges.
Apartment Therapy Main 2009
This they measure by pricking your finger and placing a drop of blood on some kind of blotting paper.
Kottu 2008
After this there seems to be a kind of blotting out of life ” everything became dim, unreal, artificial.
A Lost World Vidal, Gore 1997
Blends with the plague-smoke, blotting out the sun,
The Voyage of Magellan 2010
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