Splotch: alternatives and connections

Something blunt and round; a small drop or lump of something viscid or thick; a drop; a bubble; a blister.

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To spot, stain, or bespatter, as with ink.

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To smear with soft, adhesive matter, as pitch, slime, mud, etc.; to plaster; to bedaub; to besmear.

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A flake; also, a lock, as of wool.

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To soil; to sully; to contaminate; to disgrace.

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To overspread with anything unctuous, viscous, or adhesive; to daub; as, to smear anything with oil.

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To smear with something which stains, or makes dirty; to smutch; to begrime; to soil; to sully.

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A suffocating smoke.

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A mark on a substance or body made by foreign matter; a blot; a place discolored.

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A blot or spot, as of color or of ink; especially a large or irregular spot. Also Fig.; as, a moral blotch.

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