BLOTS OUT Synonyms: 148 Similar and Opposite Words

blots out

verb

present tense third-person singular of blot out

as in erases

to destroy all traces of blotted out all evidence of tampering with the explosive device

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as in conceals

to keep secret or shut off from view bushes blotted out the shed from our view

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Recent Examples of blots out Using sine wave generators and pink lighting so saturated it essentially blots out all other color and shadow, Young and Zazeela created a space that’s somehow both static and full of life. — Sadie Sartini Garner, Pitchfork, 4 Oct. 2026 The phenomenon, where smoke blots out the blue sky overhead, making the air appear milky-white or even orange, has become a relatively regular fixture of summers where out-of-control wildfires in the West bring noxious smoke downwind. — Matthew Cappucci, Washington Post, 17 July 2026 Extragalactic astronomers refer to a region behind our Milky Way as the 'Zone of Avoidance' because dust between our galaxy's stars blots out, or deeply reddens, light from more distant galaxies behind it. — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 4 May 2026 Most people never get to experience a total solar eclipse, when the moon blots out the disk of the sun and reveals its fiery outermost atmospheric layer, or corona. — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 6 Apr. 2026

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Researchers at the University of California San Diego have demonstrated a way to control how an experimental electronic device forms and erases memory, using electrical currents to change the behavior of a material called vanadium dioxide.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 14 Oct. 2026
Continue reading … OPINION ELI STEELE — NYC ICE shooting exposes how White Guilt erases personal responsibility.

— , FOXNews.com, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of erases

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But that also eradicates a crucial option - to mount a show trial and scapegoat him for all the ills of his rule, thus absolving others.

— Melik Kaylan, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026
Treating the underlying condition eradicates the need for drug treatments that act globally.

— Dr. Patricia Richard, Hartford Courant, 14 Apr. 2026

Definition of eradicates

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In an indirect prompt injection, an attacker hides instructions in content an AI agent will come across while doing a task—a web page or a forum post, for instance—hoping to hijack the agent.

— Andrew Nusca, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2026
In regulated work, the gap between a miss and a false certainty is enormous, and a single accuracy number hides it.

— Murali Rajendran, Forbes.com, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of hides

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The Schengen Area is an agreement between 29 European countries that abolishes passport controls and allows people to travel across European borders without providing documents.

— Robert McGreevy, FOXNews.com, 1 Aug. 2026
Attorney Monica Restanio, whose arguments in court for the Venezuelan family were responsible for winning the ruling that abolishes the minor issue, said she was thrilled.

— Julia Buckley, CNN Money, 29 July 2026

Definition of abolishes

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That is, when the dialogue is audible at all; much of it ends up subsumed by a thundering sound mix that obscures what you’re actually meant to hear.

— Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 15 Oct. 2026
Pedestrians walk along Marina Bay as thick haze obscures the Merlion park and surrounding skyline in Singapore on October 14, 2026.

— Jenny Lee,Zechariah Chan, CNBC, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of obscures

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This major markdown wipes out the steep premiums on most high-tier gaming displays, allowing e-sports players and media creators to rise through the ranks with a highly fluid, ultra-clear panoramic canvas.

— Juhi Wadia, PC Magazine, 26 June 2026
Continue reading … LINES REDRAWN — Supreme Court greenlights Alabama GOP map that wipes out a majority-Black district.

— , FOXNews.com, 3 June 2026

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