blight
blighted; blighting; blights
A blight is a disease that hurts plants and makes their leaves wither. It can also affect neighborhoods. Urban blight refers to a part of the city where things are falling apart.
Blight rhymes with bright, but it’s the opposite of sunshine; instead of making plants grow, it cripples them. The Irish Potato Famine was an example of a blight. In 1845, more than a third of the potato crops were ruined. The plants turned black and their leaves dried up and people who relied on potatoes for most of their meals also withered and experienced extreme hardship and hunger. You might want to think of it this way: a blight makes people — or plants — fight for their lives.
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any plant disease resulting in withering without rotting
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alder blight
a disease of alders caused by the woolly alder aphid (a plant louse)
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apple blight, apple canker
a disease of apple trees
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beet blight
a disease of beet plants
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blister blight
a disease of tea plants
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blister blight
a disease of Scotch pines
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cane blight
a disease affecting the canes of various bush fruits (e.g., raspberries or currants)
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chestnut blight, chestnut canker, chestnut-bark disease
a disease of American chestnut trees
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coffee blight
a blight affecting the coffee plant
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collar blight
a disease affecting the trunks of pear and apple trees
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bean blight, halo blight, halo spot
a blight of bean plants
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halo blight
a blight affecting the leaves of oats and other grasses
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head blight
a blight of the heads of cereals
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late blight
blight in which symptoms appear late in the growing season especially a disease of solanaceous plants caused by the fungus Phytophthora infestans
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leaf blight
any blight causing a browning and falling of the leaves of a plant
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peach blight
a disease of trees bearing drupes
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potato blight, potato disease, potato mildew, potato mold, potato murrain
a blight of potatoes
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rim blight
a disease of tea plants
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spinach blight
a disease of spinach plants
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spur blight
a disease of raspberries
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stem blight
a fungous blight attacking the stems of plants
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stripe blight
a disease of oats
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thread blight
a disease of tropical woody plants (cacao or tea or citrus)
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tomato blight, tomato yellows
a disease of tomato plants
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twig blight
a disease of the ends of twigs of woody plants
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walnut blight
a disease of English walnut trees
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celery blight
a fungous leaf spot disease of the celery plant
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fire blight, pear blight
a disease blackening the leaves of pear and apple trees
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wheat scab
a disease of the heads of wheat plants
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leaf cast, needle blight, needle cast
a disease of conifers causing the needles to fall
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type of:
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plant disease
a disease that affects plants
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a state or condition being blighted
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type of:
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desolation, devastation
the state of being decayed or destroyed
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desolation, devastation
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something that spoils, destroys, or impairs
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cause to suffer a blight
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cause damage or affect negatively
Vocabulary lists containing blight
After receiving a curse that causes her to slowly transform into a demon with a deadly touch, Miuko embarks on a quest to find a cure so that she can return to her normal life.
After an ogress is accused of abducting the children of Stone-in-the-Glen, a group of orphans try to save her and convince the townspeople of her good nature.
Ahead of the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago, Jewish teenage boys begin to disappear from the city's streets. After his best friend goes missing, Alter must race to solve the mystery before he becomes the killer's next victim.
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