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Verb
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blights, plural;
  1. Infect (plants or a planted area) with blight
    • - a peach tree blighted by leaf curl
  2. Spoil, harm, or destroy
    • - the scandal blighted the careers of several leading politicians
    • - his father's blighted ambitions
  3. Subject (an urban area) to neglect
    • - plans to establish enterprise zones in blighted areas
Noun
  1. A plant disease, esp. one caused by fungi such as mildews, rusts, and smuts
    • - the vines suffered blight and disease
    • - potato blight
  2. Anything that causes a plant disease or interferes with the healthy growth of a plant

  3. A thing that spoils or damages something
    • - her remorse could be a blight on that happiness
  4. An ugly, neglected, or rundown condition of an urban area
    • - the depressing urban blight that lies to the south of the city
  1. a state or condition being blighted
  2. cause to suffer a blight; "Too much rain may blight the garden with mold"
  3. any plant disease resulting in withering without rotting
  4. (blighted) affected by blight; anything that mars or prevents growth or prosperity; "a blighted rose"; "blighted urban districts"
  5. Blight is an American hardcore punk supergroup from Lansing, Michigan. Their members came from other Lansing hardcore groups.
  6. The Blight are techno-organic beings from the 30th Century whose bodies are composed of rotting flesh and technology. They started off searching galaxies in quest of immortality. Along the way, they met a powerful race, known as the Doda, with the ability to teleport across galaxies.
  7. Outpost 2, fully titled Outpost 2: Divided Destiny, is a real-time strategy computer game developed by Dynamix, released in 1997 by Sierra Entertainment. It reuses and refines some of the concepts from the original Outpost, but there is no direct continuity between the storylines or the gameplay.
  8. Blight: The Tragedy of Dublin is a play by Oliver St. John Gogarty. One of the earliest Irish "slum dramas", it focuses on the horrific conditions prevalent in Dublin's tenements and the ineffectuality of the medical and charitable institutions set up to combat them. ...
  9. The Combaticons (known as the Combatrons in Japan) are a group of Decepticon military vehicles in the assorted fictional universes of the Transformers.
  10. Urban decay is the process whereby a previously functioning city, or part of a city, falls into disrepair and decrepitude. ...
  11. any of many plant diseases causing damage to, or the death of, leaves, fruit or other parts; the bacterium, virus or fungus that causes such a condition; anything that impedes growth or development or spoils any other aspect of life; to suffer blight; to cause to suffer blight; to spoil or ...
  12. (Blighted) The same as BLASTED.
  13. describes the destructive damage to plants, often occurring over a relatively short period, caused by parasitic (e.g. fungi, bacteria, insects, etc.) and non-parasitic (e.g. frost) agents. See also head blight.
  14. Rapid browning or blackening of leaves, which subsequently die, caused by the deterioration of growing tissues.
  15. a general name for many diseases of plants esp. when leaf damage is sudden and serious, e.g., potato blight, late blight (Phytophora infestans); early blight (Alternaria solani).
  16. When the value of land or property diminishes as a result of proposals for development or anticipated development.
  17. any sudden, severe, and extensive spotting, discolouration, wilting, or destruction of leaves, flowers, stems, or entire plants, usually attacking young, growing tissues (in disease names, often coupled with the name of the affected part of the host, eg., leaf blight. blossom blight, shoot blight)
  18. Refers to a specific symptom affecting plants in response to infection by a pathogenic organism. The plant cannot manufacture its own sugars through photosynthesis because not enough chlorophyll is produced. ...
  19. a legal classification after a city hearing.
  20. A disease characterized by general and rapid killing of leaves, flowers, and stems.
  21. A parasite or insect that kills, withers, or checks the growth of plants
  22. Rapid, extensive discoloration, wilting, and death of plant tissue.
  23. A computer virus that infiltrates systems and use their computing power to increase its own power.
  24. the disease symptom in which there is sudden and severe necrosis of the above ground portions of a plant.
  25. In general terms, blight is the negative effect on an area or property caused by potential development proposals, for example a proposed major new road.