Blot_out vs Repeal - What's the difference?
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(label) To obscure.
* {{quote-book, year=1892, author=(James Yoxall)
, chapter=5, title= (label) To make indecipherable; to obliterate.
* 1886 , (Robert Louis Stevenson), (Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde)
(label) To annihilate
* (w) 7.4
To cancel, invalidate, annul.
To recall; to summon (a person) again.
* Shakespeare
To suppress; to repel.
* Milton
In transitive terms the difference between blot_out and repeal
is that blot_out is to annihilate while repeal is to cancel, invalidate, annul.As verbs the difference between blot_out and repeal
is that blot_out is used literally as out and lang=en while repeal is to cancel, invalidate, annul.As a noun repeal is
an act or instance of repealing.blot_out
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Verb
The Lonely Pyramid, passage=The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom.
- From the time he had left the house in Soho on the morning of the murder, he was simply blotted out ; and gradually, as time drew on, Mr. Utterson began to recover from the hotness of his alarm, and to grow more at quiet with himself.
- And every living substance that I have made will I blot out from off the face of the earth.
repeal
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Verb
(en verb)- to repeal a law
- The banished Bolingbroke repeals himself, / And with uplifted arms is safe arrived.
- Whence Adam soon repealed / The doubts that in his heart arose.