BLIGHT

blight

(noun) any plant disease resulting in withering without rotting

blight

(noun) a state or condition being blighted

blight, plague

(verb) cause to suffer a blight; “Too much rain may blight the garden with mold”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

blight (countable and uncountable, plural blights)

(plant disease) Any of many plant diseases causing damage to, or the death of, leaves, fruit or other parts.

The bacterium, virus or fungus that causes such a condition.

(by extension) Anything that impedes growth or development or spoils any other aspect of life.

Hyponyms

• alder blight

• American blight

• aphis-blight

• apple blight

• bean blight

• beet blight

• blister blight

• cane blight

• celery blight

• chestnut blight

• coffee blight

• collar blight

• early blight

• fire blight

• fireblight

• frictional blight

• functional blight

• fusarium ear blight

• fusarium head blight

• green blight

• halo blight

• head blight

• kernel blight

• late blight

• leaf blight

• moth blight

• needle blight

• northern corn-leaf blight

• northern leaf blight

• oak blight

• peach blight

• pear blight

• pine blight

• planning blight

• potato blight

• rim blight

• sandy blight

• seedling blight

• southern blight

• Sphaeropsis blight

• spinach blight

• spur blight

• stamen blight

• stem blight

• stripe blight

• thread blight

• tomato blight

• twig blight

• urban blight

• walnut blight

Verb

blight (third-person singular simple present blights, present participle blighting, simple past and past participle blighted)

(transitive) To affect with blight; to blast; to prevent the growth and fertility of.

(intransitive) To suffer blight.

(transitive) To spoil or ruin (something).

Source: Wiktionary

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Blight, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Blighted; p. pr. & vb. n. Blighting.] Etym: [Perh. contr. from AS. blicettan to glitter, fr. the same root as E. bleak. The meaning "to blight" comes in that case from to glitter, hence, to be white or pale, grow pale, make pale, bleach. Cf. Bleach, Bleak.]

1. To affect with blight; to blast; to prevent the growth and fertility of. [This vapor] blasts vegetables, blights corn and fruit, and is sometimes injurious even to man. Woodward.

2. Hence: To destroy the happiness of; to ruin; to mar essentially; to frustrate; as, to blight one's prospects. Seared in heart and lone and blighted. Byron.

Blight, v. i.

Definition: To be affected by blight; to blast; as, this vine never blights.

Blight, n.

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. That which frustrates one's plans or withers one's hopes; that which impairs or destroys. A blight seemed to have fallen over our fortunes. Disraeli.

4. (Zoöl.)

Definition: 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.

5. pl.

Definition: A rashlike eruption on the human skin. [U. S.]

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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