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单词 blotched
释义

blotched

adjective

ˈblächt How to pronounce blotched (audio)
: marked or marred with blotches or irregular spots : covered with blotches
blotched skin
It was a blotched, stained, mouldering room … Charles Dickens
His rumpled grey hair stood up above his forehead like the crest of an angry bird, and the leather-brown of his veined cheeks was blotched with red. Edith Wharton

Synonyms

  • blotchy
  • dappled
  • dapple
  • marbled
  • mottled
  • piebald
  • pied
  • pinto
  • splotched
  • spotted
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Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web Its leaves are deciduous and sometimes white-blotched. Howard Garrett, Dallas News, 16 Aug. 2021 Click on the state Division of Oil, Gas & Geo-thermal Resources well-finder map, which shows both active and inactive sites, and L.A. becomes blotched with black. Matt Jaffe, Los Angeles Magazine, 5 Feb. 2018 The study sheds light on the late emergence of the blotched or striped coat markings, which began to appear in domesticated tabby cats in the Middle Ages. National Geographic, 19 June 2017

Word History

First Known Use

1604, in the meaning defined above

blotched 1 of 2

adjective

as in splotched
having blotches of two or more colors a blotched black-and-white rabbit

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • splotched
  • colored
  • blotchy
  • spotted
  • stained
  • marbled
  • mottled
  • dapple
  • pied
  • colorful
  • pinto
  • streaked
  • dappled
  • piebald
  • flecked
  • speckled
  • shaded
  • specked
  • streaked
  • dyed
  • blotted
  • checkered
  • dotted
  • pigmented
  • varicolored
  • discolored
  • multicolored
  • marked
  • calico
  • stippled
  • polychrome
  • brindle
  • polychromatic
  • sprinkled
  • variegated
  • peppered
  • spattered
  • brindled
  • motley
  • bespattered

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • monochromatic
  • monochrome
  • solid
  • monochromic

blotched

2 of 2

verb

past tense of blotch
as in dotted
to mark with small spots especially unevenly my pen leaked and blotched my shirt pocket

Synonyms & Similar Words

  • dotted
  • sprinkled
  • stained
  • mottled
  • flecked
  • speckled
  • freckled
  • dyed
  • spotted
  • splotched
  • dappled
  • marbled
  • stippled
  • peppered
  • striped
  • specked
  • streaked
  • blotted
  • shot
  • banded
  • interspersed
  • barred
  • studded
  • spattered
  • bespattered
  • set
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