From the time he had left the house in Soho on the morning of the murder, he was simply blotted out; and gradually, as time drew on, Mr. Utterson began to recover from the hotness of his alarm, and to grow more at quiet with himself.
to make something undecipherable; to obliterate
Silbentrennung
to make some·thing undecipherable; to ob·lit·er·ate