meaning of blight
1. To affect with blight; to blast; to prevent the growth and fertility of.
2. Hence: To destroy the happiness of; to ruin; to mar essentially; to frustrate; as, to blight ones prospects.
3. To be affected by blight; to blast; as, this vine never blights.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. That which frustrates ones plans or withers ones hopes; that which impairs or destroys.
7. 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.
8. A rashlike eruption on the human skin.
9. any plant disease resulting in withering without rotting
Related Words
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