to blotch
- verb
- /blɑtʃ/
- Her face was blotched with quick anger.
- blotched face
- skin blotched
- cheeks blotched
Examples
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Her face was blotched red from weeping.
Fiction book (1991) -
"The clan stones were large boulders of gray granite, rounded by weather and blotched with lichens.
Fiction book (1992) -
I feel like this is blotching a little bit.
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His pen blotches his paper.
Fiction book (1991) -
The stone bench is blotched yellow and white now, with moss growing between the cracks.
Fiction book (2001) -
His face is blotched red and white inside the porthole of his balaclava, puffed beyond all normal expression.
Fiction book (1998) -
The calves were smooth and dark, unlike their mothers, who were blotched with barnacles and whale lice.
Fiction book (2002) -
Face blotched, bags under her eyes, broken lip, but she wasn't all that old—forty-seven—
Fiction book (1998) -
Scarlett was seated at Colum's side, her face swollen and blotched from earlier storms of weeping.
Fiction book (1991) -
The artist used a variety of colors to blotch the canvas, creating a unique texture.
Synonyms
To make a small mark or stain on something
To put patches of color on a surface
To cover something with many small spots of a different color
To mark a surface with small spots of color or light
To make small spots of a different color on something
To make something have uneven spots or patches of color
To put uneven marks of color or liquid on a surface
To mark something with small spots
To cover something with patches of different colors
Antonyms
Compounds
How Marked
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Etymology
The verb blotch is also linked to blot, which means 'to mark or stain'. To blotch something is to make it look stained or covered with irregular patches, like spilled ink or paint making ugly spots.