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US
/ˈbɫaɪ/
]
NOUN
- British admiral; was captain of the H.M.S. Bounty in 1789 when part of the crew mutinied and set him afloat in an open boat; a few weeks later he arrived safely in Timor 4,000 miles away (1754-1817)
How To Use Bligh In A Sentence
- Airport noise and pollution blight many lives. The Sun
- The apple trees were blighted by frost.
- Almost all areas are blighted by misbehaving youths at night. Times, Sunday Times
- The word blighting here, noted as unsuitable by Rossetti, is cancelled in the Bodleian manuscript (Locock). The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley
- All over Europe, the fringes of suburbia are blighted by the dreary apparatus of industry - undecorated sheds and dour offices in glum lots girdled by sterile acres of parking.
- There is only so long you can ignore that kind of behaviour, even knowing that the little blighter has a bowl filled to the brim with tasty kitty treats in the kitchen.
- Political bias - raw and wicked - blights American newspapers and TV news.
- Twitter in an attempt to exert discipline at the end of a year that has been blighted by rebellion within the side and allegations of match-fixing. Times, Sunday Times
- The most common diseases are verticillium wilt and phomopsis blight.
- She was blighted by respiratory illness and memory blanks. Times, Sunday Times