Definition of "blotted out" []

• Reduced to nothingness (adjective)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "The pounding in my ears blotted out all other sounds, and my sight was going, for I could no longer make out his form, and the cabin lights were dwindling to pin-points."
• "A glistening, muscular, twelve-foot, white wingspan blotted out the darkness."
• "It was discoveries like this that accumulated in John Livingstone's note-book till he blotted out all his instances and left only the blessed result, 'Alexander Gordon, a man of great spirit, but much subdued by inward exercise, and who was visited with most rare experiences of downcasting and uplifting.'"