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What (who) is Blight - definition
PLANT DISEASE, TYPICALLY ONE CAUSED BY FUNGI SUCH AS MILDEWS, RUSTS, AND SMUTS, AND BY SOME BACTERIA
Leaf blight; Bacterial blight
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Blight
·noun A rashlike eruption on the human skin.
III. Blight ·noun That which frustrates one's plans or withers one's hopes; that which impairs or destroys.
V. Blight ·noun 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.
VI. Blight ·vt Hence: To destroy the happiness of; to Ruin; to mar essentially; to Frustrate; as, to blight one's prospects.
VII. Blight ·noun 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.
VIII. Blight ·noun 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.
blight
n.
1) to cast, put a blight on, upon
2) a potato blight
3) urban blight
4) a blight on (a blight on one's honor)
blight
(blights, blighting, blighted)
1.
You can refer to something as a blight when it causes great difficulties, and damages or spoils other things.
This discriminatory policy has really been a blight on America...
Manchester still suffers from urban blight and unacceptable poverty.
N-VAR: usu with supp
2.
If something blights your life or your hopes, it damages and spoils them. If something blights an area, it spoils it and makes it unattractive.
An embarrassing blunder nearly blighted his career before it got off the ground.
...a strategy to redevelop blighted inner-city areas.
VERB: V n, V-ed
3.
Blight is a disease which makes plants dry up and die.
N-UNCOUNT: also N in pl
Wikipedia
Blight
Blight refers to a specific symptom affecting plants in response to infection by a pathogenic organism.
Examples of use of Blight
1. BLIGHT ON HISTORY "What has occurred is a blight on Australia‘s history," said Angelo Gavrielatos, vice president of the New South Wales Teachers Federation.
2. Neighborhoods don‘t suffer the potential blight of numerous foreclosures.
3. The statistics will further blight the reputation of Manchester.
4. But outbreaks of illness could blight the industry‘s boom.
5. "I think it‘s sharp." Anti–blight advocates think otherwise.