blight
/blaɪt/ verb C2- To affect the fertility or growth of (a plant) with a blight (noun sense 1.1), especially one caused by a fungus; to blast, to mildew, to smut.
- To affect (a body part) with a disease.
- To impede the development or growth of (an aspect of life); to damage, to ruin, to spoil. · Those obscene tattoos are going to blight your job prospects.
- Of a plant: to suffer blight (noun sense 1.1). · This vine never blights.
Plural blight · He/she/it blights · Past blighted · Past participle blighted · -ing form blighting
Verb forms
- Base form
- blight
- He/she/it
- blights
- Past
- blighted
- Past participle
- blighted
- -ing form
- blighting
From the library
A blight seemed to have descended on her.
It blighted it.
Lynde says Myrtle Bell is a blighted being.
I asked Ruby Gillis why Myrtle was blighted, and Ruby said she guessed it was because her young man had gone back on her.
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