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View definitions for blot out

blot out

verb as in eclipse

verb as in efface

verb as in extinguish

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Example Sentences

Within three hours, black smoke billowing down from the hills blotted out the sun as locals fled, streets jammed with cars, and anxiety turned to flat-out panic.

Foster lamented that the "dark cloud" that is Trump has blotted out what should be a moment "historic to women and girls" of the Harris candidacy.

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In a later bid to blot out those memories, the Yankees leveled that stadium and built another one across the street.

Will it be a fiery landscape where sizzling sidewalks cause second-degree burns, wildfire smoke blots out the sun, and water flows only sometimes, and mostly not at all?

And few things generate awe like watching the moon blot out the sun and plunge a sunny day into erie darkness.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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