[
UK
/blˈaɪtɪd/
]
[ US /ˈbɫaɪtɪd/ ]
[ US /ˈbɫaɪtɪd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
affected by blight; anything that mars or prevents growth or prosperity
blighted urban districts
a blighted rose
How To Use blighted In A Sentence
- The apple trees were blighted by frost.
- Almost all areas are blighted by misbehaving youths at night. Times, Sunday Times
- 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.
- 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
- She was blighted by respiratory illness and memory blanks. Times, Sunday Times
- She was blighted by respiratory illness and memory blanks. Times, Sunday Times
- In Trainspotting, Begbie's blood boils at the backpackers who see the sights of the city centre but are blind to the blighted landscape of its surrounding schemes.
- The canola crop, is blighted; there is a physical presence.
- The remainder is blighted by alternating self-flagellation, self-justification and unwarranted extrapolation.
- Not only is it blighted by foul conditions but it also bears no relation to the original concept of a May Day celebration. Times, Sunday Times