to cover something so that you can no longer see it
to forget something unpleasant, or to make someone forget an unpleasant memory or feeling
Dark clouds overhead had blotted out the sun.
He must sever all ties of memory and sentimentality, blot out, above all, the insidious tug of longing.
She tried hard to blot out the bitter memories of the divorce.
blots out
blotting out
blotted out
There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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