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Blot_out vs Repeal - What's the difference?

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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

English

Verb

  • (label) To obscure.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1892, author=(James Yoxall)
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  • (label) To make indecipherable; to obliterate.
  • * 1886 , (Robert Louis Stevenson), (Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde)
  • 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.
  • (label) To annihilate
  • * (w) 7.4
  • And every living substance that I have made will I blot out from off the face of the earth.

    repeal

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cancel, invalidate, annul.
  • to repeal a law
  • To recall; to summon (a person) again.
  • * Shakespeare
  • The banished Bolingbroke repeals himself, / And with uplifted arms is safe arrived.
  • To suppress; to repel.
  • * Milton
  • Whence Adam soon repealed / The doubts that in his heart arose.

    Synonyms

    * annul, cancel, invalidate, revoke, veto

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An act or instance of repealing.
  • Anagrams

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