blotch

American  

[bloch] / blɒtʃ /

noun

1. a large, irregular spot or blot.

   Synonyms:

   stain, blemish, mark, splotch

2. Plant Pathology.

   1. a diseased, discolored spot or area on a plant.

   2. a disease so characterized, usually accompanied by cankers and lesions.

3. a skin eruption; blemish.

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verb (used with object)

1. to mark with blotches; blot, spot, or blur.

   The floor of the forest was blotched with cool, dark moss.

adjective

1. Textiles. of or relating to blotch printing, or to the colored ground produced by this process.

blotch British  

/ blɒtʃ /

noun

1. an irregular spot or discoloration, esp a dark and relatively large one such as an ink stain

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verb

1. to become or cause to become marked by such discoloration

2. (intr) (of a pen or ink) to write or flow unevenly in blotches

blotch Scientific  

/ blŏch /

1. Any of several plant diseases caused by fungi and resulting in brown or black dead areas on leaves or fruit.

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Etymology

Origin of blotch

1595–1605; perhaps blend of blot ¹ + botch ²

Example Sentences

His face had begun to blotch with a red raised rash.

From Literature

Its gray skin was covered with blotches of green-and-brown algae, and scars from years of encounters with motorboats crisscrossed its back.

From Literature

Pretty soon people began to sneeze from all the cat hair and soap powder in the air, and one lady broke out in big red blotches all over because she was allergic to cats.

From Literature

My notebook pages are wet and blotched by water!

From Salon

A new study provides the first worldwide map of such regions, which show up on every continent except Antarctica like giant, angry skin blotches.

From Science Daily

Related Words

• blemish
• blot