To affect (grain) with smut.

To check or stop (growth); to blight, nip, or mar the growth of (a plant, etc.). Now dialect.

transitive. To affect with blight, n. (see the noun, sense 1).

(a) transitive (chiefly in passive) to make (tobacco) house-burnt; (b) intransitive (of tobacco) to become house-burnt.

transitive. To affect (a cereal crop or other plant) with rust or blight. Now rare.

To affect with the disease spur or ergot.

transferred. To shrivel up as if by heat.

damage to the roots of young plants, caused by the movement of the stem in the wind; also as v. transitive.