Usually means: Absorb or stain with liquid.
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We found 41 dictionaries that define the word blot:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. blot: Merriam-Webster
  2. blot: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. blot, blot: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. blot: Collins English Dictionary
  5. blot: Vocabulary.com
  6. Blot, blot: Wordnik
  7. blot: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. blot: Wiktionary
  9. blot: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. blot: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. blot: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Blot, blot: Dictionary.com
  13. blot: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. blot: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Blot (album), Blot (biology), Blot (disambiguation), Blot, The Blot: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Blot: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. blot: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. blot: Rhymezone
  19. blot: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. blot: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. blot: FreeDictionary.org
  22. blot: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. blot: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. blot: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. blot: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. blot: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Disney Comics Characters (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. blot: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Blot (biology), blot: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. blot: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Blot (biology), blot: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. BLOT: Acronym Finder
  2. blot: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Blot: Easton Bible

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. blot, blot: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. blot: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Blot: Backgammon

(Note: See bloting as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A blemish, spot or stain made by a coloured substance.
noun:  (by extension) A stain on someone's reputation or character; a disgrace.
noun:  (biochemistry) A method of transferring proteins, DNA or RNA, onto a carrier.
noun:  (backgammon) An exposed piece in backgammon.
verb:  (transitive) To cause a blot (on something) by spilling a coloured substance.
verb:  (intransitive) To soak up or absorb liquid.
verb:  (transitive) To dry (writing, etc.) with blotting paper.
verb:  (transitive) To spot, stain, or bespatter, as with ink.
verb:  (transitive) To impair; to damage; to mar; to soil.
verb:  (transitive) To stain with infamy; to disgrace.
verb:  (transitive) To obliterate, as writing with ink; to cancel; to efface; generally with out.
verb:  (transitive) To obscure; to eclipse; to shadow.
verb:  (transitive, MLE) To sell illegal drugs, to deal, to push.
verb:  (backgammon, transitive) To hit a blot.

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