[
UK
/blˈaɪt/
]
[ US /ˈbɫaɪt/ ]
[ US /ˈbɫaɪt/ ]
NOUN
- a state or condition being blighted
- any plant disease resulting in withering without rotting
VERB
-
cause to suffer a blight
Too much rain may blight the garden with mold
How To Use blight 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
