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blight

(blīt)

a. Any of numerous plant diseases resulting in sudden conspicuous wilting and dying of affected parts, especially young, growing tissues.

b. The condition or causative agent, such as a bacterium, fungus, or virus, that results in blight.

a. An agent or action that harms or ruins the value or success of something: "the heavy-handed, moralistic parenting that was the blight of the traditional family" (Theodore Roszack).

b. A condition or result of harmful or ruinous action: policies that lifted the city from economic blight.

v. blight·ed, blight·ing, blights

v.tr.

1. To cause (a plant, for example) to undergo blight.

2. To have a deleterious effect on; ruin. See Synonyms at blast.

v.intr.

To suffer blight.

[Origin unknown.]

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blight

(blaɪt)

1. (Plant Pathology) any plant disease characterized by withering and shrivelling without rotting. See also potato blight

2. (Plant Pathology) any factor, such as bacterial attack or air pollution, that causes the symptoms of blight in plants

3. a person or thing that mars or prevents growth, improvement, or prosperity

4. an ugly urban district

5. the state or condition of being blighted or spoilt

6. to cause or suffer a blight

7. (tr) to frustrate or disappoint

8. (tr) to spoil; destroy

[C17: perhaps related to Old English blǣce rash; compare bleach]

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blight

(blaɪt)
n.

a. the rapid and extensive discoloration, wilting, and death of plant tissues.

b. any of various plant diseases so characterized.

2. any cause of impairment or frustration.

3. the state or result of being deteriorated or ruined: urban blight.

v.t.

4. to cause to wither or decay.

5. to destroy; ruin; frustrate: Illness blighted her hopes.

v.i.

6. to suffer blight.

[1605–15; of uncertain orig.]

blight

(blīt)

1. Any of numerous plant diseases that cause leaves, stems, fruits, and tissues to wither and die. Rust, mildew, and smut are blights.

2. The bacterium, fungus, or virus that causes such a disease.

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blight

Past participle: blighted
Gerund: blighting

Imperative
blight
blight

Present
I blight
you blight
he/she/it blights
we blight
you blight
they blight

Preterite
I blighted
you blighted
he/she/it blighted
we blighted
you blighted
they blighted

Present Continuous
I am blighting
you are blighting
he/she/it is blighting
we are blighting
you are blighting
they are blighting

Present Perfect
I have blighted
you have blighted
he/she/it has blighted
we have blighted
you have blighted
they have blighted

Past Continuous
I was blighting
you were blighting
he/she/it was blighting
we were blighting
you were blighting
they were blighting

Past Perfect
I had blighted
you had blighted
he/she/it had blighted
we had blighted
you had blighted
they had blighted

Future
I will blight
you will blight
he/she/it will blight
we will blight
you will blight
they will blight

Future Perfect
I will have blighted
you will have blighted
he/she/it will have blighted
we will have blighted
you will have blighted
they will have blighted

Future Continuous
I will be blighting
you will be blighting
he/she/it will be blighting
we will be blighting
you will be blighting
they will be blighting

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been blighting
you have been blighting
he/she/it has been blighting
we have been blighting
you have been blighting
they have been blighting

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been blighting
you will have been blighting
he/she/it will have been blighting
we will have been blighting
you will have been blighting
they will have been blighting

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been blighting
you had been blighting
he/she/it had been blighting
we had been blighting
you had been blighting
they had been blighting

Conditional
I would blight
you would blight
he/she/it would blight
we would blight
you would blight
they would blight

Past Conditional
I would have blighted
you would have blighted
he/she/it would have blighted
we would have blighted
you would have blighted
they would have blighted

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Noun	1.	blight - a state or condition being blighted desolation, devastation - the state of being decayed or destroyed
	2.	blight - any plant disease resulting in withering without rotting alder blight - a disease of alders caused by the woolly alder aphid (a plant louse) apple blight, apple canker - a disease of apple trees beet blight - a disease of beet plants blister blight - a disease of tea plants blister blight - a disease of Scotch pines cane blight - a disease affecting the canes of various bush fruits (e.g., raspberries or currants) chestnut blight, chestnut canker, chestnut-bark disease - a disease of American chestnut trees coffee blight - a blight affecting the coffee plant collar blight - a disease affecting the trunks of pear and apple trees bean blight, halo spot, halo blight - a blight of bean plants halo blight - a blight affecting the leaves of oats and other grasses head blight - a blight of the heads of cereals late blight - blight in which symptoms appear late in the growing season especially a disease of solanaceous plants caused by the fungus Phytophthora infestans leaf blight - any blight causing a browning and falling of the leaves of a plant peach blight - a disease of trees bearing drupes potato blight, potato disease, potato mildew, potato mold, potato murrain - a blight of potatoes rim blight - a disease of tea plants spinach blight - a disease of spinach plants spur blight - a disease of raspberries stem blight - a fungous blight attacking the stems of plants stripe blight - a disease of oats thread blight - a disease of tropical woody plants (cacao or tea or citrus) tomato blight, tomato yellows - a disease of tomato plants twig blight - a disease of the ends of twigs of woody plants walnut blight - a disease of English walnut trees plant disease - a disease that affects plants
Verb	1.	blight - cause to suffer a blight; "Too much rain may blight the garden with mold" plague afflict, smite - cause physical pain or suffering in; "afflict with the plague"

blight

noun

1. curse, suffering, evil, depression, corruption, distress, pollution, misery, plague, hardship, woe, misfortune, contamination, adversity, scourge, affliction, bane, wretchedness urban blight and unacceptable poverty
curse help, service, favour, blessing, boon, bounty, godsend, benefaction

2. disease, plague, pest, fungus, contamination, mildew, contagion, infestation, pestilence, canker, cancer the worst year of the potato blight

verb

1. frustrate, destroy, ruin, crush, mar, dash, wreck, spoil, scar, undo, mess up, annihilate, nullify, put a damper on families whose lives were blighted by unemployment

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blight

verb

To spoil or destroy:

blast, dash, nip.

Translations

عاهَةٌ، آفَةٌ

plíseňsněť

pilataturmella

gróîurplága

miltrasa

plieseň

blight

[blaɪt]

A. N

1. (Bot) [of plants, cereals, fruit, trees] → roya f

2. (fig) → plaga f
urban blight → desertización f urbana
to cast a blight on or over → arruinar

B. VT

1. (Bot) (= wither) → marchitar

2. (fig) (= spoil) → arruinar; (= frustrate) → frustrar; [+ urban scene] → desertizar

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blight

[ˈblaɪt]

to be a blight on sth (= disgrace to) → être un fléau pour qch, être une plaie pour qch urban blight

(= disease) (in roses, cereals) → rouille f; (in potatoes) → mildiou m, brunissure f

[+ career, life] → gâcher

[+ hopes] → anéantir, briser

blight

(on plants) → Braunfäule f

(fig) to be a blight on or upon somebody’s life/happiness → jdm das Leben/jds Glück vergällen; these slums are a blight upon the city → diese Slums sind ein Schandfleck für die Stadt; scenes of urban blight → verfallene Stadtteile; this poverty which is a blight upon our nation → die Armut, mit der unser Volk geschlagen ist

plants → zerstören

(fig) hopes → vereiteln; sb’s career, future also → verderben; to blight somebody’s life → jdm das Leben verderben

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blight

[blaɪt]

1. n (Bot) malattia che fa avvizzire le piante (fig) → piaga

2. vt (plants) → far avvizzire (fig) (future, hopes) → rovinare, distruggere

blight

(blait) noun

a disease in plants that withers them. potato blight.

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"O King of blight and sorrow, send me not away till I have brought back the light and joy that will make your dark home bright and beautiful again.

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'Morning, morning, morning!' said Mr Boffin, with a wave of his hand, as the office door was opened by the dismal boy, whose appropriate name was Blight. 'Governor in?'

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And he smiled so pleasantly at his own wit that the provinces of Ghargaroo, M'gwana, and Scowow were affected with a blight.

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"Fading, with the Night, the clouds of ignorance, and the deadly blight of sin, and the silent tears of sorrow: and ever rising, higher, higher, with the Day, the radiant dawn of knowledge, and the sweet breath of purity, and the throb of a world's ecstasy!

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'Tis thus, O boy, that Autumn comes, the cold Pitiless autumn of the wrack and mist, Autumn, the season of the cloudless sky, Autumn, of biting blasts, the time of blight And desolation; following the chill Stir of disaster, with a shout it leaps Upon us.

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Only a very few days more - appallingly few to the hearts which had set themselves bravely to hope against hope - three weeks, a month later, perhaps, the name of ships under the blight of the "Overdue" heading shall appear again in the column of "Shipping Intelligence," but under the final declaration of "Missing."

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A blight is on our harvest in the ear, A blight upon the grazing flocks and herds, A blight on wives in travail; and withal Armed with his blazing torch the God of Plague Hath swooped upon our city emptying The house of Cadmus, and the murky realm Of Pluto is full fed with groans and tears.

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But this, his thinness, so to speak, seemed no more the token of wasting anxieties and cares, than it seemed the indication of any bodily blight. It was merely the condensation of the man.

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But there were strong cords pulling him back from that abrupt departure: the blight on his happiness in thinking of Dorothea, the crushing of that chief hope which had remained in spite of the acknowledged necessity for renunciation, was too fresh a misery for him to resign himself to it and go straightway into a distance which was also despair.

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THE happiest day-the happiest hour My seared and blighted heart hath known, The highest hope of pride and power, I feel hath flown.

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"Which do we live on--a splendid one or a blighted one?"

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There was the same thick air, difficult to breathe; the same blighted ground, the same hopeless prospect, the same misery and distress.