Blight

Quick meaning: Blight is a noun meaning A state of cloudy, humid weather.

Meaning

A state of cloudy, humid weather.

More Meanings

1. Something that impedes development or growth, or spoils any other aspect of life.
2. A rundown and unsightly condition of an urban area; also, such an area.
3. To affect (a body part) with a disease.
4. The cause of such a condition, often unseen but believed to be airborne; specifically, a bacterium, a virus, or (especially) a fungus; also, an aphid which attacks fruit trees.
5. A diseased condition of the face or skin; specifically, bleeding under the conjunctiva of the eye, a form of skin rash, or a palsy of the face due to cold.
6. To affect the fertility or growth of (a plant) with a blight (noun sense 1.1), especially one caused by a fungus; to blast, to mildew, to smut.
7. A diseased condition suffered by a plant; specifically, a complete and rapid chlorosis, browning, then death of plant tissues such as floral organs, leaves, branches, or twigs, especially one caused by a fungus; a mildew, a rust, a smut.

Example Sentences

He saw her image in the blight and blackness all around him, not irradiating but deepening the gloom.

Proceed, inhuman Parent in thy Scorn; / Root up my Trees, vvith Blites deſtroy my Corn; / My Vineyards Ruin, and my Sheepfolds burn.

She moved about the country like a ghost, gathering herbs in dark loanings, lingering in kirkyairds, and casting a blight on innocent bairns.

And the youth stood by thy side and whispered to thee; and from his lips there came a reeking smoke, and in that smoke as in a blight the wings withered up.

Word Forms

• blights
• blighting
• blighted
• blightest
• blightedst
• blighteth

Synonyms for blight

Depending on context, synonyms include bane, blighten, ball up, bumble, botch, bungle.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include plague, mildew, bacteria, bacterial, bacterium, infestation.

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