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blight

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noun

ˈblīt How to pronounce blight (audio)
1
botany
a
: a disease or injury of plants marked by the formation of lesions, withering, and death of parts (such as leaves and tubers)
potato blight
b
: an organism (such as an insect or a fungus) that causes blight
2
: something that frustrates plans or hopes
the blight of poverty
an abandoned factory that was a blight on the neighborhood
3
: something that impairs or destroys
… censorship … has brought under its blight Ireland's greatest poets, dramatists, and scholars. Paul Blanshard
4
: a deteriorated condition
urban blight

blight

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verb

blighted; blighting; blights

transitive verb

1
botany : to affect (a plant) with a disease or injury marked by the formation of lesions, withering, and death of parts (such as leaves and tubers) : to affect with blight (see blight entry 1 sense 1)
The apple trees were blighted by fungus.
2
: to impair the quality or effect of
the condition that has blighted his son's life Patricia Guthrie

intransitive verb

botany : to suffer from or become affected with blight
The potatoes blighted.

Synonyms

Noun

Example Sentences

Noun the city's spreading urban blight the expanding urban sprawl is a blight on the countryside Verb Builders blighted the land with malls and parking lots.
Recent Examples on the Web
Noun
Many of those developments built in the 1960s and 1970s led to blight, higher crime rates and harder situations for renters, housing advocates say. Catherine Reagor, AZCentral.com, 15 Aug. 2022 Judges noted that this variety showed excellent resistance to blight, a common disease that afflicts tomatoes. Andrea Beck, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Aug. 2022 Since then, Lysychansk had struggled with many of the same difficulties afflicting factory towns around the world: poverty, urban blight, and alcohol and drug abuse. Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 23 July 2022 Poppleton, a predominantly Black neighborhood just west of Martin Luther King Boulevard, has long suffered from blight, and city leaders began working on a redevelopment plan more than two decades ago. Giacomo Bologna, Washington Post, 20 July 2022 The predominantly Black neighborhood, which is just west of Martin Luther King Boulevard, has long suffered from blight, and city leaders targeted it for redevelopment more than two decades ago. Giacomo Bologna, Baltimore Sun, 18 July 2022 Like Chernobyl, the prefecture has become synonymous with nuclear blight, sullying even places like Nishiaizu that were unharmed by the quake and tsunami and received far lower doses of radiation than communities closer to the coast. New York Times, 10 Mar. 2021 This article from Michigan looks at if there is truly a blight or some environmental damage. oregonlive, 14 Aug. 2022 Early blight affects the leaves and stems only, so the tomato fruits will be healthy and delicious. Susan Brownstein, cleveland, 21 July 2022
Verb
The passenger caps have already prompted carriers to cancel more flights and halt some bookings—setbacks that are now set to blight the normally busy school breaks in the fall. Benjamin Katz, WSJ, 12 Aug. 2022 And these avatars certainly capture ABBA’s original exuberance, minus the Jurassic tendencies that tend to blight decades-after-the-fact reunions in the real world. Mark Sutherland, Variety, 27 May 2022 Baltimore Housing Commissioner Alice Kennedy praised the mayor for his commitment to blight prevention and pledged to keep working diligently to address the nearly 15,000 vacant houses in Baltimore. Lea Skene, Baltimore Sun, 12 May 2022 Challenges are based on worries that the vast arrays of turbines will interfere with fishing, obstruct naval exercises and blight views from summer houses. New York Times, 22 Mar. 2022 In the clinical world, consistency is king; gaps in data can blight the reliability of any takeaways, or beleaguer analysis. Grace Browne, Wired, 14 Mar. 2022 Doping allegations continue to blight Russia’s race-walking program—17 of its athletes have been banned for doping in the past few years—even as athletes from the program have dominated the world championships and Olympics. The Editors, Outside Online, 15 Jan. 2015 Tent encampments still blight cities, however, and many voters equate them with crime. George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2022 In my experience, few things blight a career as much as a failed software implementation. Mark Robinson, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2021 See More

Word History

Etymology

Noun

of obscure origin

Verb

verbal derivative of blight entry 1

First Known Use

Noun

1578, in the meaning defined at sense 1a

Verb

1695, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of blight was in 1578

Phrases Containing blight

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