: marked or marred with blotches or irregular spots : covered with blotches
blotched skin
It was a blotched, stained, mouldering room …—
Charles Dickens
Charles DickensHis rumpled grey hair stood up above his forehead like the crest of an angry bird, and the leather-brown of his veined cheeks was blotched with red.—Edith Wharton
Edith WhartonExamples of blotched in a Sentence
a blotched black-and-white rabbit
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“Blotched.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/blotched. Accessed 4 Jul. 2026.
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