Overview of verb spot

The verb spot has 6 senses

• descry, spot, espy, spy -- (catch sight of)


• spot, recognize, recognise, distinguish, discern, pick out, make out, tell apart -- (detect with the senses; "The fleeing convicts were picked out of the darkness by the watchful prison guards"; "I can't make out the faces in this photograph")


• blemish, spot -- (mar or impair with a flaw; "her face was blemished")


• spot, fleck, blob, blot -- (make a spot or mark onto; "The wine spotted the tablecloth")


• spot -- (become spotted; "This dress spots quickly")


• spot -- (mark with a spot or spots so as to allow easy recognition; "spot the areas that one should clearly identify")

Overview of adj spotted

The adj spotted has 1 sense

• patched, spotty, spotted -- (having spots or patches (small areas of contrasting color or texture); "a field patched with ice and snow"; "the wall had a spotty speckled effect"; "a black-and-white spotted cow")