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  • verb Present participle of blotch.
  • noun The situation of having blotches; blotchiness.

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Examples

  • An example of this is red "blotching" in meat that sometimes occurs because of excess stress placed on a lamb when it is getting ready to be stunned for slaughter.

    Lancaster Farming - Lancaster Farming 2009

  • In fact, the only symptom not found in reports of nerve gas exposure is the peculiar skin "blotching" that afflicted some of the Palestinian victims.

    WHAT REALLY HAPPENED 2009

  • For instance, the holly leaf miner, whose nondescript larvae cause leaf blotching at this time of year – their entire world is limited to that tiny strip between the top and bottom of a single leaf.

    Conservationists discover more than 1,000 species in New Guinea 2011

  • For instance, the holly leaf miner, whose nondescript larvae cause leaf blotching at this time of year – their entire world is limited to that tiny strip between the top and bottom of a single leaf.

    Conservationists discover more than 1,000 species in New Guinea 2011

  • Ducking low, dark sweat blotching their backs, they plow into the wind thrown up from the churning rotors.

    GIRL BY THE ROAD AT NIGHT DAVID RABE 2010

  • Ducking low, dark sweat blotching their backs, they plow into the wind thrown up from the churning rotors.

    GIRL BY THE ROAD AT NIGHT DAVID RABE 2010

  • Blown from pillar to post, this particular spot has been deemed refuse's final blotching place.

    The Forsaken 2010

  • I took in the neat stack of washed plates by the sink, the ketchup blotching his tee shirt, then lured him to the table with a glass of orange juice.

    Thick With Memory 2010

  • Ducking low, dark sweat blotching their backs, they plow into the wind thrown up from the churning rotors.

    GIRL BY THE ROAD AT NIGHT DAVID RABE 2010

  • Now personally I don't think I HAVE Lupus but how many unusually varient Lupus patients have been told they don't have Lupus just because they don't have blotching, or blotching on the face YET?

    My specialist referral: blamed for my own death. Will ANYONE be 'responsible?' Elizabeth McClung 2009

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