English-Icelandic translations for blot

• blettur
• klessa

Definition of blot

• A blemish, spot or stain made by a coloured substance
• A stain on someone's reputation or character; a disgrace
• A method of transferring proteins, DNA or RNA, onto a carrier
• to cause a blot by spilling a coloured substance
• To dry with blotting paper
• To impair; to damage; to mar; to soil
• To stain with infamy; to disgrace
• To obliterate, as writing with ink; to cancel; to efface; generally with ''out''
• To obscure; to eclipse; to shadow

Examples

• This paper blots easily.
• to blot out a word or a sentence

Related words

• blotter
• blotchy
• blotch
• inkblot
• blotto
• immunoblot
• blot out
• blotting paper
• Humblot’s Heron