Thesaurus results for SPLOTCHES

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noun

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plural of splotch

as in blotches

a small area that is different (as in color) from the main part the bleach left a small white splotch on my shirt

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verb

present tense third-person singular of splotch

as in sprinkles

to mark with small spots especially unevenly ink from a leaking pen had badly splotched his shirt pocket

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Recent Examples of splotches

Noun

Its flowers are huge and orange, marked or mottled with maroon splotches. —

Pedro Moura, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2026 The resulting mess of colors and splotches would be impossible to put back together, even using a quantum computer, according to the research. —

Adam Kovac, Scientific American, 27 May 2026 The lobby’s elevator doors opened and a woman with a giant white saucer on her head and a matching floor-length coat, embellished with red splotches that evoked stab wounds, slowly exited. —

Jane Bua, New Yorker, 14 May 2026 Mold doesn’t always announce itself with dark splotches on a wall or ceiling. —

Ryan Brennan, Miami Herald, 9 May 2026 Die große Nacht im Eimer (The Big Night Down the Drain), made that year, depicts a figure of indiscernible age with a cadaverous pallor and yellow splotches, brandishing an oversized phallus beneath a soot-black veil. —

Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 30 Apr. 2026 In the distance, splotches of purple and fuchsia seem to explode. —

Heather Greenwood Davis, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Apr. 2026 New foliage emerges pink and fades to pure white before developing green splotches that give mature foliage lovely green and white variegation. —

Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 26 Apr. 2026 The alternative rocker included a close-up photo of her infected leg, which was covered in red splotches. —

Edward Segarra, USA Today, 15 Apr. 2026

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Noun

Soon, red blotches were sprouting on his skin.

— Mary Beth Sheridan, CNN Money, 17 May 2026
These grow to form blotches that have lighter and darker zones appearing as irregular concentric rings that grow throughout the season until the entire leaf turns black and dies.

— Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 3 May 2026