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• v  mark with spots or blotches of different color or shades of color as if stained
• s  marked with irregularly shaped spots or blots

• But much of the map would be speckled and blotched.
• Jackie, her skirt and stockings blotched by blood, helped get the President out of the car and, her hand on his chest, walked into the hospital beside him.
• That "blotched with mildew" tells a story within the story: Laertes, Odysseus' aged father, has not gone to battle in a long time.

• mottle
• streak
• blotch
• blotchy
• splotched

News & Articles

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• Australia’s “Lost World”
  The Blotched Boulder-frog ( Cophixalus petrophilus ) survives without access to a lake or pond by staying in the dark, moist depths of the boulder fields. It only surfaces when it rains.
  Oct. 29, 2013 - Salon.com

Quotes

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• Achy Obejas in Dallas Morning News
  As Obejas describes him, Usnavy is a man "thin and gaunt ...... his previously reddish hair ...... turned white as sea foam and topped his now sun-blotched face," and seems to be the only supporter of the Revolution in his crowd, in which...