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Answer for the clue "Too much ink ", 4 letters:
blot

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Word definitions for blot in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a blemish made by dirt; "he had a smudge on his cheek" [syn: smudge , spot , daub , smear , smirch , slur ] an act that brings discredit to the person who does it; "he made a huge blot on his copybook" [syn: smear , smirch , spot , stain ] [also: blotting ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Blot \Blot\, v. i. To take a blot; as, this paper blots easily.

Usage examples of blot.

In all likelihood, the Autocrat had saved dozens of lives this day by blotting out the leaders in this pointless fight.

His blackened form made a blot as it passed the white marble front of the mausoleum where Josiah Bartram lay buried.

Aziza Begum and Zobeida, she was afraid, and the tears that she would not let Sabrina see fell and blotted the written words.

The screaming of women was a constant high note of terror in the murky air, now so besmudged by smoke as to blot out the sun.

Having blotted the last copy, Brassey rang for two clerks to witness the signatures.

I blotted my scrapes carefully and had replaced the antiseptic and the bandages by the time that Bucky got back with my robe.

It took me a long while to somewhat recover my composure and by then we were inside it as securely as Jonah in the belly of the whale and in almost as profound a darkness, for the close boughs of the evergreens blotted out the sky except when a lump of the snow with which they were lined fell on our heads like the dropping of a big, cold-blooded bird, and then a few scraps of red light from the fire we left behind us showed through the gap, bloodying the night-time clouds.

A dark place, a shadowed place, only a blot against the eternally nightened skies.

To dispel the illusion that so outmatched his own arts, the Black Dragon stooped forward to clutch at the spread cloak and the slouch hat that tilted from the top of the cloth blot.

They overlie and blot out all the little sounds of every-day life and usage.

Families against whom neither Thompson lawyer nor Bairam physician could recollect a progenitorial blot, either on the male or female side, were not numerous.

There was a table with writing paper and a bottle of Quink ink and blotting paper.

Nylan was blotting his forehead, and even Relyn had opened his jacket by the time a single rider cantered down the road from the ridge.

Also the baronet, whose ancestors were all honourable men and stainless women, found it hard to overlook a certain royal bar-sinister, which had originated the Luxmore earldom, together with a few other blots which had tarnished that scutcheon since.

The abolition of serfdom by Alexander II in 1861 blotted out the social evil that Dostoevsky had hated the most, and against which he had been willing to rebel at the risk of his life.