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- pronunciation:
- blaIt
- parts of speech:
- noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb
- features:
- Word Combinations (noun, verb), Word Explorer
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noun |
| definition 1: |
a plant disease characterized by rapid destruction of parts or all of a plant.
Potato blight caused a great famine in Ireland in the mid-1800s.- similar words:
- disease, rot
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| definition 2: |
any such malignant condition or force.
They've been living with the blight of industrial pollution for years.- synonyms:
- devastation, ravages, scourge
- similar words:
- affliction, bane, cancer, canker, corruption, decay, disease, infliction, pestilence, plague, poison
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| related words: |
enemy, mold, pest |
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| part of speech: |
transitive verb |
| inflections: |
blights, blighting, blighted |
| definition 1: |
to act upon with blight.
Insects blighted the garden.- synonyms:
- devastate, ravage, wither
- similar words:
- afflict, decay, infest
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| definition 2: |
to ruin, frustrate, or destroy.
Lack of funds blighted his plans.- synonyms:
- blast, destroy, devastate, frustrate, ravage, ruin, spoil
- similar words:
- dash, kill, poison, wither
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| related words: |
canker, curse, infect, pollute, spoil, vitiate |
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| part of speech: |
intransitive verb |
| definition: |
to become affected by blight.
The crops blighted.- similar words:
- decay, die, mildew, rot, shrivel, spoil, wither
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| derivation: |
blightingly (adv.) |
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