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]

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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.

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