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[ blahyt ] / blaɪt / SEE SYNONYMS FOR blight ON THESAURUS.COM
nounPlant Pathology. - the rapid and extensive discoloration, wilting, and death of plant tissues.
- a disease so characterized.
any cause of impairment, destruction, ruin, or frustration: Extravagance was the blight of the family. the state or result of being blighted or deteriorated; dilapidation; decay: urban blight. verb (used with object)to cause to wither or decay; blast: Frost blighted the crops. to destroy; ruin; frustrate: Illness blighted his hopes. verb (used without object)Origin of blightFirst recorded in 1605–15; of uncertain origin SYNONYMS FOR blight2 curse, plague, scourge, bane. SEE SYNONYMS FOR blight ON THESAURUS.COM OTHER WORDS FROM blightblight·ing·ly, adverbun·blight·ed, adjectiveun·blight·ed·ly, adverbun·blight·ed·ness, nounWords nearby blightblew, blewit, blewits, Blida, Bligh, blight, blighter, blighty, bliksem, blimey, blimp Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for blightNeighborhoods and commercial areas deprived of pedestrian traffic are more vulnerable to urban blight and street and property crime. Myths and Shame Shouldn’t Guide Cannabis Regulations|John Bertsch|September 8, 2020|Voice of San Diego Increasingly, cities long left to rot are rising from the ashes of blight as they try to become shining examples of new urbanism. A Tech Millionaire Bets on the Urban Revival of Downtown Las Vegas|Sarah Kunst|January 16, 2014|DAILY BEAST Others announced layoffs and cutbacks and every manner of cancer and blight. Books Aren't Dying|Patrick DeWitt|February 27, 2009|DAILY BEAST We went on—the Blight thrilled, for she had heard much of our volunteer force at the Gap and had seen something already. A Knight of the Cumberland|John Fox Jr.
I can be to you nothing but a blight or burden, nothing but a source of privation and anguish. The Disowned, Complete|Edward Bulwer-Lytton A blight of the same kind can be traced to the attempt of the state to play the paternal rôle. Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, January 1899|Various Blight appears on apple trees in three forms, as blossom blight, as twig blight, and as blight cankers. Apple Growing|M. C. Burritt Also, now that she had gone, the extent to which Miss Hobson had acted as a blight was universally recognized. The Adventures of Sally|P. G. Wodehouse
British Dictionary definitions for blight
nounany plant disease characterized by withering and shrivelling without rottingSee also potato blight any factor, such as bacterial attack or air pollution, that causes the symptoms of blight in plants a person or thing that mars or prevents growth, improvement, or prosperity an ugly urban district the state or condition of being blighted or spoilt verbto cause or suffer a blight (tr) to frustrate or disappoint Word Origin for blightC17: perhaps related to Old English blǣce rash; compare bleach Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to blightmildew, decay, scourge, eyesore, canker, pest, affliction, fungus, infestation, mar, taint, curse, pestilence, dump, withering, evil, bane, sight, contamination, woe Scientific definitions for blight
Any of numerous plant diseases that cause leaves, stems, fruits, and tissues to wither and die. Rust, mildew, and smut are blights. The bacterium, fungus, or virus that causes such a disease. The American Heritage® Science Dictionary Copyright © 2011. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. |