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Spotted

adjective

Having spots or patches (small areas of contrasting color or texture). Synonyms: patched, spotty. "The wall had a spotty speckled effect" , "A black-and-white spotted cow"

Spot

verb

(past & past part. spotted; pres. part. spotting)

Catch sight of. Synonyms: descry, espy, spy.

Detect with the senses. Synonyms: discern, distinguish, make out, pick out, recognise, recognize, tell apart. "I can't make out the faces in this photograph"

Mar or impair with a flaw. Synonym: blemish.

Make a spot or mark onto. Synonyms: blob, blot, fleck.

Become spotted.

Mark with a spot or spots so as to allow easy recognition.

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"Spotted" Quotes from Famous Books

... use of me saying I'm sorry?" he asked savagely. "I acted for the best. The chances were ten thousand to one against me being spotted. But there you are! You never know your luck." He spoke meditatively, in a rather hoarse, indistinct voice. "All owing to Florrie, of course! When it was suggested we should have that girl, I knew there was a danger. But I pooh-poohed it! I said ...

— Hilda Lessways • Arnold Bennett

... For neither did the mischievous invention of men deceive us, nor an image spotted with divers colours, ...

— Deuteronomical Books of the Bible - Apocrypha • Anonymous

... increase; ten minutes; a distant shriek—the hoarse inquiry of the inspector—had the Herr's companions yet gekommt? the sudden glare of a Cyclopean eye in the darkness, the ongliding of the long-jointed and gleaming spotted serpent, the train—a hurried glance around the platform, one or two guttural orders, the slamming of doors, the remounting of black uniformed figures like caryatides along the marchepieds, a puff of vapor, and the train had come and gone ...

— A Ward of the Golden Gate • Bret Harte

... by way of caution, "You must bear in mind that the principal streets of New York are full of pickpockets and desperadoes. They will recognize you as a stranger, so you must be wary. You may be 'spotted' as you go into or come out of the banking office. It often happens that a man is robbed in Wall Street in open day,—is knocked down and his money 'grabbed' before his eyes. So be very careful and trust nobody. Go alone to the banking office, or get a trusty servant from the house ...

— A Boy's Voyage Round the World • The Son of Samuel Smiles

... whose love too fierce for feebler lives to endure, brings death or madness to men. I tried to warn, to awaken him from the spell; my will-call aroused him; he turned, recognized me and hesitated; then this figure that lured him rose to her full height; I saw her in all her plume of a peacock, it was spotted with gold and green and citron dyes, she raised her arms upwards, her robe, semi-transparent, purple and starred over with a jewel lustre, fell in vaporous folds to her feet like the drift over a waterfall. She turned her head with a sudden ...

— AE in the Irish Theosophist • George William Russell

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