blotch

[bloch]

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noun

a large, irregular spot or blot.
Plant Pathology.
1. a diseased, discolored spot or area on a plant.
2. a disease so characterized, usually accompanied by cankers and lesions.
a skin eruption; blemish.

verb (used with object)

to mark with blotches; blot, spot, or blur: The floor of the forest was blotched with cool, dark moss.

adjective

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

Origin of blotch

1595–1605; perhaps blend of blot¹ + botch²

Synonyms for blotch

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1. splotch, mark, blemish, stain.

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Related Words for blotched

impress, seal, daub, sully, blacken, spatter, tarnish, stain, blot, smudge, smear, motley, dappled, dotted, blotched, streak, point, scratch, bruise

Examples from the Web for blotched

Historical Examples of blotched

His shirt and hand, and even his naked arm, were stained and blotched with blood.
Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates
Howard Pyle
His brushes and razors were spread out on the blotched marble of the chest of drawers.
The Reef
Edith Wharton
They were blotched by mosquito bites and tanned to a leather brown.
The Trail of the Goldseekers
Hamlin Garland
In color it is green or blue, blotched and streaked with black.
The Animal World, A Book of Natural History
Theodore Wood
There were three eggs, cream-coloured, and blotched with brown.
The Swan and Her Crew
George Christopher Davies

British Dictionary definitions for blotched

blotch

noun

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

verb

to become or cause to become marked by such discoloration
(intr) (of a pen or ink) to write or flow unevenly in blotches

Word Origin for blotch

C17: probably from botch, influenced by blot 1

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Word Origin and History for blotched

blotch

c.1600, perhaps a blend of blot and botch or patch.

blotched in Science

blotch

[blŏch]

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