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botany
: affected with blight (see blight entry 1 sense 1)
a blighted plant
This pathogen causes blighted flowers, heavy leaf spotting, and the death of young, green shoots.—
Elsie Cox
Elsie Cox2
: in a badly damaged or deteriorated condition
a blighted landscape
a blighted city
… the physicians who work here in some of the nation's most blighted neighborhoods …—Malcolm Gladwell
Malcolm Gladwell3
: made ineffectual : defeated or frustrated
blighted dreams
At every point we are confronted with shattered promises, blighted hopes, irreconcilable dilemmas, good intentions gone astray …—Gertrude Himmelfarb
Gertrude HimmelfarbExamples of blighted in a Sentence
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The former school is on Hartford’s blighted properties list.
—Kenneth R. Gosselin, Hartford Courant, 14 July 2024
The former Navy base in the Bywater and the Touro Shakespeare Home in Algiers secured millions in federal funding aimed at redeveloping the blighted properties.
—Chelsea Brasted, Axios, 12 July 2024
In 2020, the city sued the nonprofit over conditions of the blighted property, according to Crain's Detroit.
—Jc Reindl, Detroit Free Press, 12 June 2024
The ensuing trip back to King’s most blighted town is a perfect coda to his early classic novel.
—Neil McRobert, Vulture, 20 May 2024
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Kenneth R. Gosselin, Hartford Courant, 14 July 2024
The former Navy base in the Bywater and the Touro Shakespeare Home in Algiers secured millions in federal funding aimed at redeveloping the blighted properties.
—Chelsea Brasted, Axios, 12 July 2024
In 2020, the city sued the nonprofit over conditions of the blighted property, according to Crain's Detroit.
—Jc Reindl, Detroit Free Press, 12 June 2024
The ensuing trip back to King’s most blighted town is a perfect coda to his early classic novel.
—Neil McRobert, Vulture, 20 May 2024
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“Blighted.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/blighted. Accessed 27 Jul. 2024.
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