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n. Any of numerous plant diseases resulting in sudden conspicuous wilting and dying of affected parts, especially young, growing tissues.

n. The condition or causative agent, such as a bacterium, fungus, or virus, that results in blight.

n. An extremely adverse environmental condition, such as air pollution.

n. Something that impairs growth, withers hopes and ambitions, or impedes progress and prosperity.

v. To cause (a plant, for example) to undergo blight.

v. To have a deleterious effect on; ruin. See Synonyms at blast.

verb-intransitive. To suffer blight.

n. any of many plant diseases causing damage to, or the death of, leaves, fruit or other parts

n. the bacterium, virus or fungus that causes such a condition

n. anything that impedes growth or development or spoils any other aspect of life

v. to suffer blight

v. to cause to suffer blight

v. to spoil or ruin (something)

v. To affect with blight; to blast; to prevent the growth and fertility of.

v. Hence: To destroy the happiness of; to ruin; to mar essentially; to frustrate.

verb-intransitive. To be affected by blight; to blast.

n. Mildew; decay; anything nipping or blasting; -- applied as a general name to various injuries or diseases of plants, causing the whole or a part to wither, whether occasioned by insects, fungi, or atmospheric influences.

n. The act of blighting, or the state of being blighted; a withering or mildewing, or a stoppage of growth in the whole or a part of a plant, etc.

n. That which frustrates one's plans or withers one's hopes; that which impairs or destroys.

n. A downy species of aphis, or plant louse, destructive to fruit trees, infesting both the roots and branches; -- also applied to several other injurious insects.

n. A rashlike eruption on the human skin.

n. Some influence, usually hidden or not conspicuous, that nips, blasts, or destroys plants; a diseased state of plants caused by the condition of the soil, atmospheric influences, insects, parasitic plants, etc.; smut, mildew, or the like.

n. Figuratively, any malignant or mysterious influence that nips, blasts, destroys, or brings to naught; anything which withers hope, blasts one's prospects, or checks prosperity.

n. . In medicine: A slight facial paralysis induced by sudden cold or damp.

n. See blights.

To affect with blight; cause to wither or decay; nip, blast, or destroy.

To exert a malignant or baleful influence on; blast or mar the beauty, hopes, or prospects of; frustrate.

n. Purulent conjunctivitis.

n. An insect, usually inconspicuous or hidden, which causes trees or plants to become diseased or to die, as the American blight.

n. Same as mosquito blight. See also tea-bug.

n. any plant disease resulting in withering without rotting

n. a state or condition being blighted

v. cause to suffer a blight

"If he could have seen the expression on Edith's face the night previous, as she looked on his besotted father, he would have cursed more bitterly than ever what he termed the blight of his life."

aid    cherish    strengthen   

blighted    blighting    blights   

devastation    desolation    smite    afflict   

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blight-beetle    blight bird    blighty    blight canker    cane blight    American blight    apple blight    blight in the eye    beet blight    alder blight   

ruin    frustrate    blast    mildew    decay    nip    strike    infect    wither    sear   

Bright    Dwight    Knight    Night    White    Wight    Wright    alight    allright    alright   

pestilence    mildew    rot    desolation    drought    famine    scourge    plague    sickness    calamity