blight

tizón

Enfermedad que daña o mata rápidamente las hojas, flores u otras partes de una planta.

En inglés sencillo: 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.

Expresiones frecuentes: potato blight, tomato blight, blight on something

lacra, plaga

Algo que perjudica gravemente un lugar, una actividad o un aspecto de la vida.

En inglés sencillo: 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.

Cómo se usa: a blight on something (Corruption is a blight on public life.)

Sinónimos: curse, scourge

Expresiones frecuentes: blight on something, a terrible blight

deterioro urbano

Mal estado de una zona urbana con edificios dañados o vacíos, o una zona así.

En inglés sencillo: 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.

Sinónimos: urban decay

Expresiones frecuentes: urban blight, areas of blight, blight in something

tiempo húmedo y nublado

Tiempo nublado con mucha humedad en el aire.

En inglés sencillo: 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.

Expresiones frecuentes: humid blight, blight weather

arruinar, malograr

Dañar gravemente la vida, las esperanzas o las posibilidades de éxito de alguien.

En inglés sencillo: 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.

Sinónimos: ruin, spoil, damage

Expresiones frecuentes: blight someone’s life, blight someone’s prospects, blight the future

enfermar, marchitar

Dañar o matar una planta mediante una enfermedad.

En inglés sencillo: 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.

Sinónimos: infect, damage

Expresiones frecuentes: blight the crops, blight a plant

enfermar, marchitarse

Sufrir una planta una enfermedad que daña y mata algunas de sus partes.

En inglés sencillo: 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.

Expresiones frecuentes: plants blight easily, vines blight quickly