"blot up" is not correct or commonly used in written English.
The expression "mop up" is the correct phrase. For example: The soldiers were instructed to mop up the remains of the enemy soldiers after the battle.
Transfer the springform pan from the water bath to a wire cooling rack; discard the foil and try to blot up any water that might have pooled in the base of the pan.
The beef jerky recipe was a bit more involved; it called for nuking marinated beef strips at 30-second intervals, stopping to blot up the moisture in between blasts, then flipping and continuing.
At a time when the Postal Service is running up significant losses and has twice raised postal rates in the last year to blot up its red ink, the excessive amount of money being diverted to the sponsorship of a bicycle team is the ultimate in marketing absurdity.
And only then would people arrive with money and say, 'I want that.' Now — and I think this started with Pop Art — there's money waiting like a big blotter to blot up art, so that the slightest bit of inkiness is sponged up.
Blot up as much of the grease stain as possible, then apply something like cornmeal, which will act to absorb the grease.
The problem was traced to material — actual kitty litter — used to blot up liquids in sealed drums.
The visceral organs were rinsed of residual blood, blotted up, weighed and stored at −20°C for assay.
Something was revealed in her that was normally hidden: an auburn light in her face, her freckles startling as the camouflage of an animal, blotting up against her lips and eyelids.
Her little daughter had bitten her tongue and made it bleed; the girl had started to cry and the mother had wiped away her tears and blotted up the blood with the handkerchief, looked out through the open window of the carriage, thrown the handkerchief outside, and smiled at the switchman.
For the treatment experiments, the seedlings of C. komarovii were carefully removed from soil and blotted up water then placed into the solutions with ABA (100 µM), SA (1 mM), MeJA (100 µM) and NaCl (300 mM), using three repeated trials.
The embryos were placed into 96-well plates (10 embryos in each, 2 parallel reactions for each) and blotted up the culture fluid with absorbent papers.
