blot out

verb

1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see blot, out.
2. To obscure.

   “The moon blotted out the sun and all was dark.”

   “However, upon a ſtrict Review, I blotted out ſeveral Paſſages of leſs Moment which were in my firſt Copy, for fear of being cenſured as tedious and trifling, whereof Travellers are often, perhaps not without Juſtice, accuſed.”

3. To make indecipherable; to obliterate.

   “From the time he had left the house in Soho on the morning of the murder, he was simply blotted out; and gradually, as time drew on, Mr. Utterson began to recover from the hotness of his alarm, and to grow more at quiet with himself.”

4. To annihilate

   “And every living substance that I have made will I blot out from off the face of the earth.”