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Meaning in simple English, pronunciation and examples
Pronunciation: US /blaɪt/
blight means: A plant disease that quickly damages or kills leaves, flowers, or other parts.
noun
A plant disease that quickly damages or kills leaves, flowers, or other parts.
- Blight destroyed the tomato plants.
- The farmer checked the leaves for signs of blight.
- Wet weather helped the blight spread through the crop.
Something that badly harms a place, activity, or part of life.
- The factory is a blight on the landscape.
- Poverty remains a blight on the community.
- He called corruption the greatest blight on their future.
The poor, ugly condition of a town area with damaged or empty buildings, or an area like this.
- Urban blight has spread across the district.
- Empty shops added to the blight in the town center.
- The council hopes new housing will reduce blight.
Cloudy weather with a lot of water in the air.
- A damp blight hung over the fields.
- The old diary mentions days of blight and rain.
- They blamed the lingering blight for the wet harvest.
verb
To seriously harm someone’s life, hopes, or chances of success.
- The injury blighted his career.
- Poverty has blighted many lives in this town.
- One mistake should not blight your whole future.
To damage or kill a plant through disease.
- The fungus can blight young plants.
- Disease blighted the potato crop last year.
- Several trees were blighted during the wet summer.
For a plant to become damaged by a disease that kills its parts.
- These vines rarely blight.
- The tomatoes blighted during the damp summer.
- Some potato varieties blight more easily than others.
Questions about blight
What does blight mean?
A plant disease that quickly damages or kills leaves, flowers, or other parts.
What is blight in other languages?
Türkçe: bitki yanıklığı · Español: tizón · Français: brûlure · Deutsch: Pflanzenfäule · Italiano: malattia delle piante · 日本語: 葉枯病
How do you pronounce blight?
It is pronounced /blaɪt/.
How do you use blight in a sentence?
Blight destroyed the tomato plants. The farmer checked the leaves for signs of blight.
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