BLOT

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Traducere în limba română

blot I. substantiv

1. pată; pată de cerneală; purcoi.

2. pată, stigmat, prihană, cusur, lipsă;

a foul blot pată ruşinoasă;

a blot in /on the escutcheon o pată pe reputaţie / blazon;

to hit a blot a descoperi o pată / un cusur.

blot II. verb tranzitiv

1. a murdări, a mânji; a păta.

2. (fig.) a necinsti, a murdări, a păta.

3. (mai ales to blot out) a şterge, a tăia.

4. (fig.) (mai ales to blot out) a şterge, a spăla, a uita; a ascunde;

a cloud has blotted out the moon un nor a ascuns luna.

5. a grundui, a colora.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

The blot of smoke which indicated the Macedonia’s position had reappeared.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

Oh, Mina dear, I can't help crying: and you must excuse this letter being all blotted.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

No father had watched my infant days, no mother had blessed me with smiles and caresses; or if they had, all my past life was now a blot, a blind vacancy in which I distinguished nothing.

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

In the midst of the silence of death, I read thus, from a blotted letter: ““When you, who love me so much better than I ever have deserved, even when my mind was innocent, see this, I shall be far away.””

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

The blot of smoke had suddenly grown larger, and it was very black.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

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