单词 | blotching |
释义 | blotchingn. a. The action of marking with blotches; discolouring. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > variegation > patch of colour > [noun] > marking with patches blotching1767 1767 T. Long Specif. Patent 869 A machine for the blotching, printing..colours on..calicoes, etc. 1872 J. D. Dana Corals & Coral Islands ii. 137 A blotching of the rock with various shades of pink and purple. b. concrete. Botch, disfigurement, smudging. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > misrepresentation > [noun] falsification1565 belying1603 misrepresentation1641 misrepresenting1645 misrendering1661 misconstructing1678 misdescription1848 blotching1865 oversell1969 1865 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia VI. xx. i. 10 Read him with a Map; and divine for yourself what the real names are, out of the inhuman blotchings made of them. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online June 2019). blotchingadj. That makes blotches. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > [adjective] > harmful or injurious > in tendency or detrimental injurious1559 marring1567 inimicous1598 blemishing1603 disserviceable1645 inimical1645 detrimentous1648 detrimental1656 inimicitial1656 inimic1696 inimicable1805 violational1821 detrimentary1841 vitiating1858 blotching1865 the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > corruption > [adjective] > making corrupting1509 poisonful1520 infectivea1522 poisonous1555 infectious1574 seducing?1574 corruptful1596 depraving1606 corruptive1609 leavenous1649 poisonala1660 depravative1682 demoralizing1794 blotching1865 1865 J. Ruskin Sesame & Lilies i. 32 Owing to the spread of a shallow, blotching, blundering, infectious ‘information’..everywhere, and to the teaching of catechisms and phrases at schools. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online September 2019). < n.1767adj.1865 |
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