a)HIDE/MAKE IT HARD TO FIND OR SEEto cover or hide something completely 把…遮住,遮盖;涂去;隐藏
Thick white smoke blotted out the sun.
白色的浓烟遮住了太阳。
b)if you blot out an unpleasantmemory, a thought etc, you deliberately try to forget it 抹去,有意地忘记〔不快的记忆、想法等〕
She said she took drugs to blot out her problems.
她说她吸毒是为了排遣烦恼。
Examples from the Corpus
blot out• Actually he was a very nice man, cheerful and good-natured, but the other side of him blotted it all out.• Covered the sky, blotted it right out.• I've got to blot him out.• I use smack to blot things out.• Sandie closes her eyes and blots it out.• Would the daughter even remember her father with the perpetualpresence of Hope to blot him out?• The washing of the northernblots was carried outaccording to standard methods.• She longed to blot it out, pretend the last few months had never happened.