spotted
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- v catch sight of
- v detect with the senses
- v mar or impair with a flaw
- v make a spot or mark onto
The wine spotted the tablecloth - v become spotted
- v mark with a spot or spots so as to allow easy recognition
- s having spots or patches (small areas of contrasting color or texture)
a black-and-white spotted cow
- Trikkes are a surprise hit in Hollywood, where Jennifer Aniston, Timothy Hutton and David Spade have all been spotted riding on them.
- When Hubble did that, it quickly spotted paydirt.
- SN 2006gy collapsed into a black hole and exploded in a galaxy 240 million light years away, and was first spotted by a Texas grad student in 2006.