blight

blight
Synonyms and related words:
abnormality, abomination, abuse, acute disease, adverse circumstances, adversity, affection, afflict, affliction, aggravation, aggrieve, ailment, allergic disease, allergy, annoyance, atrocity, atrophy, bacterial disease, bad, bane, befoul, befoulment, bewitch, birth defect, blast, blast-freeze, botch, bummer, calamity, cancer, canker, cardiovascular disease, care, chronic disease, circulatory disease, complaint, complication, condemn, condition, congeal, congenital defect, corrupt, corruption, cross, crucify, crying evil, curse, damage, dash, defect, deficiency disease, defile, defilement, deformity, degenerative disease, deprave, despoil, despoliation, destroy, destruction, detriment, difficulties, difficulty, disability, disadvantage, disease, disorder, disserve, distemper, distress, do a mischief, do evil, do ill, do wrong, do wrong by, doom, downer, dry rot, endemic, endemic disease, endocrine disease, envenom, epidemic disease, evil, freeze, freeze solid, functional disease, fungus, fungus disease, gastrointestinal disease, genetic disease, get into trouble, glaciate, glacify, grievance, handicap, harass, hard knocks, hard life, hard lot, hardcase, hardship, harm, havoc, hereditary disease, hex, hurt, iatrogenic disease, ice, ill, illness, impair, indisposition, infect, infection, infectious disease, infest, infestation, infirmity, injure, injury, irritation, jinx, malady, malaise, maltreat, mar, menace, mildew, mischief, misfortune, mistreat, mold, molest, morbidity, morbus, moth, moth and rust, muscular disease, must, neurological disease, nip, nutritional disease, occupational disease, organic disease, outrage, pandemic disease, pathological condition, pathology, persecute, pest, pestilence, plague, plant disease, play havoc with, play hob with, plight, poison, pollute, pollution, predicament, prejudice, pressure, protozoan disease, psychosomatic disease, quick-freeze, refreeze, regelate, respiratory disease, rigor, rockiness, rot, ruin, rust, savage, scathe, scourge, sea of troubles, secondary disease, seediness, sickishness, sickness, signs, smut, spoil, stress, stress of life, symptomatology, symptomology, symptoms, syndrome, taint, the pip, the worst, threaten, torment, torture, toxin, trial, tribulation, trouble, troubles, urogenital disease, vale of tears, venom, vexation, vicissitude, violate, virus disease, wasting disease, wither, woe, worm, worm disease, wound, wreak havoc on, wreck, wrong

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  • Blight — refers to a specific symptom affecting plants in response to infection by a pathogenic organism. It is simply a rapid and complete chlorosis, browning, then death of plant tissues such as leaves, branches, twigs, or floral organs. [Agrios, George …   Wikipedia

  • blight — blight; blight·ed; blight·er; blight·ing; blight·ing·ly; un·blight·ed·ly; …   English syllables

  • Blight — (bl[imac]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Blighted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Blighting}.] [Perh. contr. from AS. bl[=i]cettan to glitter, fr. the same root as E. bleak. The meaning to blight comes in that case from to glitter, hence, to be white or pale, grow… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • blight — [blīt] n. [? akin to ME blichening, blight, rust (on grain) < bliknen, to lose color < ON blikja, turn pale: see BLEACH] 1. any atmospheric or soil condition, parasite, or insect that kills, withers, or checks the growth of plants 2. any of …   English World dictionary

  • Blight — Blight, v. i. To be affected by blight; to blast; as, this vine never blights. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Blight — Blight, n. 1. 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. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • blight — blīt n Austral an inflammation of the eye in which the eyelids discharge a thick mucous substance that often seals them up for days and minute granular pustules develop inside the lid called also sandy blight …   Medical dictionary

  • blight — n blast, nip (see under BLAST vb) Analogous words: *injury, damage, hurt, harm: frustration, thwarting (see corresponding verbs at FRUSTRATE) blight vb *blast, nip Analogous words: *injure, damage, hurt, harm, s …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • blight — [n] disease; plague affliction, bane, blot on the landscape*, canker, contamination, corruption, curse, decay, dump, evil, eyesore, fungus, infestation, mildew, pest, pestilence, pollution, rot, scourge, sight, withering, woe; concepts 306,674… …   New thesaurus

  • blight — ► NOUN 1) a plant disease, especially one caused by fungi. 2) a thing that spoils or damages something. 3) ugly or neglected urban landscape. ► VERB 1) infect (plants) with blight. 2) spoil or destroy. ORIGIN …   English terms dictionary

  • blight|ed — «BLY tihd», adjective. afflicted with blight; blasted: »A blighted spring makes a barren year (Samuel Johnson). Figurative. A blighted area is a district of a city that is on the way toward becoming a slum (Emory S. Bogardus) …   Useful english dictionary

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