Definition of 'blight'
Word forms: plural, 3rd person singular present tense blights, present participle blighting, past tense, past participle blighted
1. variable noun
You can refer to something as a blight when it causes great difficulties, and damages or spoils other things.
2. transitive verb
If something blights your life or your hopes, it damages and spoils them. If something blights an area, it spoils it and makes it unattractive.
3. uncountable noun
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blight in American English
noun
1.
4.
a person or thing that withers someone's hopes or ambitions
5.
the condition or result of being blighted
verb transitive
6.
to cause a blight in or on; wither
7.
to destroy
8.
to disappoint or frustrate
verb intransitive
9.
to suffer blight
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Derived forms
blighted (ˈblighted)
adjective
Word origin
? akin to ME blichening, blight, rust (on grain) < bliknen, to lose color < ON blikja, turn pale: see bleachWord Frequency
blight in American English
(blait)
noun
1. Plant Pathology
b.
a disease so characterized
2.
Extravagance was the blight of the family
transitive verb
5.
to destroy; ruin; frustrate
Illness blighted his hopes
intransitive verb
SYNONYMS 2. curse, plague, scourge, bane.6.
to suffer blight
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Derived forms
blightingly adverb
Word origin
[1605–15; of uncert. orig.]Word Frequency
blight in British English
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Word origin
C17: perhaps related to Old English blǣce rash; compare bleachExamples of 'blight' in a sentence
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British English: blight
NOUN /ˈblaɪt/
You can refer to something as a blight when it causes great difficulties, and damages or spoils other things.
This discriminatory policy has really been a blight on this country.
British English: blight
VERB /ˈblaɪt/
If something blights your life or your hopes, it damages and spoils them.
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