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[ verb ] make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing

Examples

"a hidden message" "a veiled threat"

Used in print

(The Christian Science Monitor,...)

Another source of NBC pride was its rare film_clip of Bix_Beiderbecke , but this view of the great trumpeter flew_by so fast that a prolonged wink would have blotted_out the entire glimpse .

(A. N. Nagaraj and L. M. Black, "Localization of...)

After blotting_out most of the saline around the sections , a drop of * * f was layered over each of the sections , allowed to react for 30_minutes , and then washed with PBS for 15 - 30_minutes .

After blotting_out most of the liquid around the sections , the latter were mounted in buffered glycerine ( 7 parts glycerine to 3 parts of PBS ) .

(Robert Penn Warren, Wilderness....)

His mind closed on that prospect , as though fog had descended to blot_out a valley .

(Frieda Arkin, "The Light of the Sea," in The...)

Not until the words had been spoken did Abel suddenly see the old house and the insistent sea , and feel his contrition blotted_out in one shameful moment of covetousness .

Related terms

change concealment

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