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Splotch

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. An irregularly shaped spot, stain, or colored or discolored area: "spectacular splotches of color and beauty in the blossoms” ( Wendy Lyon Moonan).

v. To mark with splotches or a splotch.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. An irregular-shaped spot or stain.

v. To mark with splotches.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. A spot; a stain; a daub.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. A broad, ill-defined spot; a stain; a daub; a smear.

To soil with splotches; cause to look splotchy.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. an irregularly shaped spot

v. blotch or spot

Word Usage

"Time had not mellowed the raw crudity of this "splotch," which Browning found recorded in no old, square, yellow vellum book, but in the French newspapers of that very August; the final judgment of the court at Caen"

Verb Form

splotched splotches splotching

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

blot smear smirch smudge slur daub spot blob fleck

Form

splotchy

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

spot stain daub splodge

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

blotch smear blob smudge speck blur blot splash sheen kerchief