Definition of blight
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 blightb : 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
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Examples of blight in a Sentence
the city's spreading urban blight
the expanding urban sprawl is a blight on the countryside
Origin and Etymology of blight
of obscure origin
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Definition of blight
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 1blight 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.
Examples of blight in a Sentence
Builders blighted the land with malls and parking lots.
Origin and Etymology of blight
verbal derivative of 1blight
BLIGHT Defined for English Language Learners
blight
playDefinition of blight for English Language Learners
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: a disease that makes plants dry up and die
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: something that causes harm or damage like a disease
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: a damaged condition
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Definition of blight for English Language Learners
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: to damage (plants) with a disease
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: to damage (a thing or place)
BLIGHT Defined for Kids
Definition of blight for Students
: a disease that makes parts of plants dry up and die
Definition of blight for Students
blighted
;blighting
: to injure or destroy by or as if by a blight Huge signs blighted the landscape.
Medical Dictionary
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playMedical Definition of blight
Australian : an inflammation of the eye in which the eyelids discharge a thick mucous substance that often seals them up for days and minute granular pustules develop inside the lid—called also sandy blight
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