First Known Use: 1578
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1blight
noun \ˈblīt\
: a disease that makes plants dry up and die
: something that causes harm or damage like a disease
: a damaged condition
Full Definition of BLIGHT
1
a : a disease or injury of plants marked by the formation of lesions, withering, and death of parts (as leaves and tubers) b : an organism (as an insect or a fungus) that causes blight
2
: something that frustrates plans or hopes
3
: something that impairs or destroys
4
: a deteriorated condition <urban blight>
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Origin of BLIGHT
origin unknown
Related to BLIGHT
- Synonyms
- blemish, blotch, defect, deformity, disfigurement, excrescence, excrescency, fault, flaw, imperfection, mar, mark, pockmark, scar
2blight
verb
: to damage (plants) with a disease
: to damage (a thing or place)
Full Definition of BLIGHT
transitive verb
1
: to affect (as a plant) with blight
2
: to impair the quality or effect of <the condition that has blighted his son's life — Patricia Guthrie>
intransitive verb
: to suffer from or become affected with blight
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First Known Use of BLIGHT
1664
BLIGHT Defined for Kids
1blight
noun \ˈblīt\
Definition of BLIGHT for Kids
: a disease that makes parts of plants dry up and die
2blight
verb
blight·edblight·ing
Definition of BLIGHT for Kids
: to injure or destroy by or as if by a blight <Huge signs blighted the landscape.>
Medical Dictionary
blight
noun \ˈblīt\
Medical Definition of BLIGHT
Australian : an inflammation of the eye in which the eyelids discharge a thick mucous substance that often seals them up for days and minute granular pustules develop inside the lid—called also sandy blight
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