Blight
[blaɪt]
Definition
(noun.) any plant disease resulting in withering without rotting.
(noun.) a state or condition being blighted.
(verb.) cause to suffer a blight; 'Too much rain may blight the garden with mold'.
Editor: Mervin--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To affect with blight; to blast; to prevent the growth and fertility of.
(v. t.) Hence: To destroy the happiness of; to ruin; to mar essentially; to frustrate; as, to blight one's prospects.
(v. i.) To be affected by blight; to blast; as, this vine never blights.
(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.
Typist: Ronald
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Pestilence (among plants), mildew, blast.
v. a. Blast, wither, shrivel, kill, destroy, taint with mildew, cause to decay.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See BLAST]
Checker: Mitchell
Definition
n. a disease in plants which blasts or withers them: anything that injures or destroys.—v.t. to affect with blight: to blast: to frustrate.—p.adj. Blight′ing withering blasting.
Checker: Raymond
Examples
- There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire: it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Contempt fell cool on Mr. Rochester--his passion died as if a blight had shrivelled it up: he only asked--What have _you_ to say? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- There was a sense of blight in the air; the flowers were drooping in the garden, and the ground was parched and dewless. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Such a marriage would irretrievably blight my son's career, and ruin his prospects. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- The blight, I believed, was chiefly external: I still felt life at life's sources. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- What Richard would have been without that blight, I never shall know now! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Lord strike a blight upon it,' I says, wotever it was I went for, 'if it ain't for him! Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Give my love to your aunt, George dear, and implore her not to curse the viper that has crossed your path and blighted your existence. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Do not allow a trivial misunderstanding to wither the blossoms of spring, which, once put forth and blighted, cannot be renewed. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- And yet, from the very first day of our wedding, you came and blighted it. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I was capable of much; but I have been injured and blighted and crushed by things beyond my control! Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Either it is blighted in the bud, or has got the smother-fly, or it isn't nourished. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I am simply blighted--like a damaged ear of corn--the business is done and can't be undone. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- There was something in this simple memento of a blighted childhood, and in the tenderness of Mrs Boffin, that touched the Secretary. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Our ice boats cut and break the ice of the river, and through the water beneath our boats daily ply their way to and fro, independent of winter and its blighting blasts. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
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