English Dictionary

blotch

IPA（発音記号）

/blɒtʃ/

動詞

他動詞 自動詞

(transitive) To mark with blotches. / (intransitive) To develop blotches, to become blotchy.

日本語の意味

（他動詞）まだらにする、斑点をつける。 / （自動詞）まだらになる、斑状になる。

The artist decided to blotch the white canvas with splashes of crimson to create a more dramatic effect.

その画家は、より劇的な効果を出すために、白いキャンバスに真紅の不規則な斑点をつけた。

意味（1）

(transitive) To mark with blotches.

Upon the whole, the spirit and relief of the figures, with the strength of the colouring, render it a most noble picture; and it is not done in the coarse blotching stile, so common to the pieces which pass under the name of Bassan.

意味（2）

(intransitive) To develop blotches, to become blotchy.

[…] when a man is going to drive cattle out of the county he has to put a road-brand on them […] It is generally made of letters or figures, or something that won’t cross lines, because where they cross they are apt to blotch and then it’s hard to tell what the brand is and who the animal belongs to.

blotches （ present singular third-person ）

blotching （ participle present ）

blotched （ participle past ）

blotched （ past ）