blotched

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English

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Etymology

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From blotch +‎ -ed.

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Adjective

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blotched (comparative more blotched, superlative most blotched)

  1. Covered in blotches (uneven patches of colour or discolouration).
    Synonyms: blotchy, spotted, spotty
    Antonyms: blotchless, unblotched
    • 1743, anonymous author, A Description of Holland; or, the Present State of the United Provinces[1], London: J. & P. Knapton, page 52:
      The Dutch think no People are so much troubled with the Scurvy as they: But they mistake. There are more blotched Faces in one Town in England, than in the whole Dutch Province [...]
    • 1845, Charles Dickens, The Cricket on the Hearth, Chirp the Second,[2]
      The Blind Girl never knew that ceilings were discoloured, walls blotched and bare of plaster here and there, high crevices unstopped and widening every day, beams mouldering and tending downward.
    • 1911 October, Edith Wharton, chapter I, in Ethan Frome (The Scribner Library; SL8), New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 41:
      Frome turned away again, and taking up his razor stooped to catch the reflection of his stretched cheek in the blotched looking-glass above the wash-stand.

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Verb

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blotched

  1. simple past and past participle of blotch

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