单词	blight
释义	blight1 nounblight2 verb blightblight1 /blaɪt/ noun Examples EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS A 250-foot communications tower becomes a symbol of environmental decay as well asa cancer-causing blight on society. Bartlett pears are susceptible to fire blight. Fujimori argues that the recovery is on course and that he has made important inroads against the centuries-old blight of poverty. In the meantime, an owner who wishes to move and sell his property has to wrestle with the problem of blight. Nor are the blight years which affected potato crops in about one year in three, in the not so distant past. The City Council even passed a resolution declaring that there was no blight in Oakland. This promised major benefits to the nine Baltimore schools, some of which suffered from inner-city blight. Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN► planning · The introduction of the new type of development plan under the 1968 Act involved revised provisions in relation to planning blight.· Whether they give rise to more or to less planning blight than the old development plan system is debatable.· In 1973 the Land Compensation Act gave statutory effect to these, and made other significant changes to the planning blight provisions.· He warned that thousands of householders faced the prospect of years of planning blight. VERB► cast · There was still no word from Jonna, though, which cast a blight over Annie's mood.· People were enjoying themselves, Tom was laughing, she was afraid of casting a blight. 1[singular, uncountable] an unhealthy condition of plants in which parts of them dry up and die2[singular] something that makes people unhappy or that spoils their lives or the environment they live inblight on Her guilty secret was a blight on her happiness. the blight of poverty blight1 nounblight2 verb blightblight2 verb [transitive] Verb Table VERB TABLE blight Simple Form Present I, you, we, they blight he, she, it blights Past I, you, he, she, it, we, they blighted Present perfect I, you, we, they have blighted he, she, it has blighted Past perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they had blighted Future I, you, he, she, it, we, they will blight Future perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they will have blighted Continuous Form Present I am blighting he, she, it is blighting you, we, they are blighting Past I, he, she, it was blighting you, we, they were blighting Present perfect I, you, we, they have been blighting he, she, it has been blighting Past perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they had been blighting Future I, you, he, she, it, we, they will be blighting Future perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they will have been blighting Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES Rusty cans and plastic wrappers are blighting our wilderness areas. The country is blighted by poverty. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS David and Barbara Owen say the property is blighted by plans for a bypass just yards away. Despite such inside knowledge, the opening passages were racked with nervousness and blighted by a series of up-and-unders. Life may be regarded as an austere struggle, blighted by fate, where only the rich and the lucky fare well. Many considered the Booker Washington area hopelessly blighted. No one kept track of exactly how many were mistreated, but several thousand deaths blight the record of Ferdinand and Isabelia. The atmosphere was being poisoned, every green thing blighted, and every stream fouled with chemical fumes and waste. to spoil or damage something, especially by preventing people from doing what they want to do:  a disease which, though not fatal, can blight the lives of its victims a country blighted by poverty—blight‧ed adjective:  blighted hopes
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