blotch
noun
a large, irregular spot or blot.
blotching
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present participleof blotch.present participle
A verb form that is used in progressive verb constructions and may also function as a modifier or a gerund.
Example Sentences
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Between those two ranges, in central Myanmar, researchers found an unusual population of green snakes with different amounts of blotching.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 21, 2026
In 2005, in the same journal, Annette Upfal gave a name to the blotching of the face—idiopathic thrombocytopenia purpura—and proposed that Austen had died from Hodgkin’s disease.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 5, 2017
The blotching spread until it brought about the depigmentation suddenly observed by Will White after his bath.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was moving down the hallway, blotching like some misshapen toad in the shadowy light, lurching in his walk, that was, nevertheless, almost uncannily noiseless.
From The White Moll by Frank L. (Frank Lucius) Packard
Each variety, whatever its parentage may have been, retained all its characters perfect, and there was no streaking or blotching of the colours, as in the foregoing plants of crossed origin.
From Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom by Charles Darwin
