Blight

Word BLIGHT
Character 6
Hyphenation blight
Pronunciations /blaɪt/

Definitions and meanings of "Blight"

What do we mean by blight?

Any of numerous plant diseases resulting in sudden conspicuous wilting and dying of affected parts, especially young, growing tissues. noun

The condition or causative agent, such as a bacterium, fungus, or virus, that results in blight. noun

An agent or action that harms or ruins the value or success of something. noun

A condition or result of harmful or ruinous action. noun

To cause (a plant, for example) to undergo blight. intransitive verb

To have a deleterious effect on; ruin. synonym: blast. intransitive verb

To suffer blight. intransitive verb

Some influence, usually hidden or not conspicuous, that nips, blasts, or destroys plants; a diseased state of plants caused by the condition of the soil, atmospheric influences, insects, parasitic plants, etc.; smut, mildew, or the like. noun

Figuratively, any malignant or mysterious influence that nips, blasts, destroys, or brings to naught; anything which withers hope, blasts one's prospects, or checks prosperity. noun

. In medicine: A slight facial paralysis induced by sudden cold or damp. noun

See blights. noun

To affect with blight; cause to wither or decay; nip, blast, or destroy.

To exert a malignant or baleful influence on; blast or mar the beauty, hopes, or prospects of; frustrate.

Purulent conjunctivitis. noun

An insect, usually inconspicuous or hidden, which causes trees or plants to become diseased or to die, as the American blight. noun

Same as mosquito blight. See also tea-bug. noun

Mildew; decay; anything nipping or blasting; -- applied as a general name to various injuries or diseases of plants, causing the whole or a part to wither, whether occasioned by insects, fungi, or atmospheric influences. noun

The act of blighting, or the state of being blighted; a withering or mildewing, or a stoppage of growth in the whole or a part of a plant, etc. noun

Any of many plant diseases causing damage to, or the death of, leaves, fruit or other parts.

The bacterium, virus or fungus that causes such a condition.

(by extension) Anything that impedes growth or development or spoils any other aspect of life.

The feeling, when walking through a part of town, that this neighborhood has seen better days. The decline of a part of the city from thriving neighborhood to encroaching ghettodom. Usually, blight begins with the construction of a mall/huge shopping complex, which drains local businesses of needed revenue, causing them to fail, leading eventually to joblessness and poverty. The first signs of blight are poorly kept properties, damaged building facades and an increasing number of "for sale" signs. Blight can worsten or recover, but if aided by a poor economy, it can be the precursor to the descent of the neighborhood into ghetto status. Jobs stay scarce, get scarcer, the upper middle classes leave because the area is no longer "desirable," the lower middle classes leave to find jobs in other towns. As property values plunge, the neighborhood becomes populated by the very poor, who can't afford to live any where else. Since ethnic and class lines, just as concrete as one another, often run paralell, the neigborhood often changes color. As buildings fall into disrepair, sale signs give way to boarded up windows. In it's final state, the neighborhood is a slum, a ghetto, plagued with crime, disease and, above all, crushing, inescapeable poverty. This of course is just the worst case scenario. Urban Dictionary

A giant lumbering behmoth. Causing destruction and hate. Eats small children and is anal. Is usually a authority figure, but that doesn't make him/her not a bastard. Hates children and love. Urban Dictionary

The street name of "Milwaukee's Best Light". Traditionally, it has been known as "Beast". Blight is a blend of these terms. Urban Dictionary

An adjective to describe a black person who thinks they're white. Kind of like "wigger". Urban Dictionary

A black person that hangs out with white people and has a hight and squeeky voice/laugh. This changes when in the company of black people, which never happens to this particular person. Urban Dictionary

The sparking of a blunt. Urban Dictionary

In the Stop-Motion series “Moral Orel” Orel’s father Clay Puppington has a drunk rant about nature. He mentions the word blight being sudden withering death. And how Orel needs to look at the Blight side of things. Urban Dictionary

In the Stop-Motion series “Moral Orel” Orel’s father Clay Puppington has a drunk rant about nature. He mentions the word blight being sudden withering death. And how Orel needs to look at the Blight side of things. Urban Dictionary

A person who is completely bad luck. If they speak, or are in a certain place,bad things happen. Urban Dictionary

(adj.) A slang word describing the state of being a blight. Often used to denote something really shitty or unfortunate. Similar to dreadful. Urban Dictionary

Synonyms and Antonyms for Blight

The word "blight" in example sentences

These questions should be well considered, particularly the last one, as it is a well-known fact that in a general way the term blight is frequently used for various injuries or diseases of plants causing the whole or parts to wither and die, whether occasioned by insects, fungi, or atmospheric influences. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

If he could have seen the expression on Edith's face the night previous, as she looked on his besotted father, he would have cursed more bitterly than ever what he termed the blight of his life. ❋ Edward Payson Roe (1863)

“You don’t have to answer, but you might want to churn over if the word blight means anything to you all.” ❋ Jennifer Vanderbes (2010)

The bad always corrupts the good, a law in nature, until surgical shears are applied crime will increase [sorry] the blight is raging and there is no vaccine. mix acid with alkaline and the litmus will tell you red wins? ❋ Inspector Gadget (2009)

The Fishwife herself, who gave me the young plants, says that her own crop failed – the tomatoes caught blight from the potatoes in her allotment and had to be ripped up and thrown away. ❋ Jean (2009)

The name "late blight" is appropriate since the fungus strikes late in the growing season, close to harvest time. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Suddenly everybody in the Obervell office was flipping open dictionaries to figure out the definition of blight. ❋ Jennifer Vanderbes (2010)

The blight is not due to the presence of a strip clube, but to the combination and sheer density of strip clubs, tattoo parlors, army surplus stores, fast food joints, and hourly rate motels. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Troubled by the president's dictatorial whims and widespread corruption, Western investors are pulling back, threatening a long-term blight of the Kenyan economy. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Your declaratory statement "Strip joints are a sign of urban blight" is analogous to x+y = 3. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The prospect of reform hinged on the claim that the life of system was a life of corruption, destined to end in blight and decay. ❋ Unknown (1997)

Brian Mahler, who is now an attorney in the Massachusetts Superior Court Department, wrote that the BRA had stretched the definition of blight'' to justify taking Yawkey Way. ❋ Unknown (2011)

When the gravel-covered used-car lots that dot Route 1 stood in the way of plans to turn the highway into an arts district, Prince George’s County thought it could declare the businesses illegal and turn what it called blight into ... ❋ Unknown (2005)

When the gravel-covered used-car lots that dot Route 1 stood in the way of plans to turn the highway into an arts district, Prince George’s County thought it could declare the businesses illegal and turn what it called blight into beauty. ❋ Unknown (2005)

That building has changed hands three times in the course of three years, now it's just sitting there, with the [for sale] sign, [faded] pale blue by the sun. [I smell] blight. ❋ Teh Ded Pope (2005)

"Hey the blight [kicked] me [out of school] for a [month] for a year because I smiled." ❋ Bagedly (2004)

"Yo [homeslice], hit me up wit some ill [Blight], dawg!" "Nah, [fuck tum]." ❋ Koolio Kramer (2005)

Jacquice is so blight. ❋ Krankheit (2007)

[hes] [such a] [freakin] blight. ❋ Poop (2003)

[yo], [lets go] blight that on [the porch]. ❋ Quazm (2007)

Clay: (After a large swig of alcohol) I gotta tell you, [Orel]; your cup is always half empty. You need to be more like your old man and look at the [blight] side of things. Orel: [Blight]? Clay: I didn't say bright, I said blight. "My life is sunny and blight". Bright means the opposite, it means sudden [withering] death, and...(Suddenly despondent)...Oh, who am I kidding? My life is full of bright. Orel: You mean blight? Clay: Oh God... Orel: What's the matter? Clay: ...I hate myself... ❋ Gamering Gamers (2022)

Clay: (After a large swig of alcohol) I gotta tell you, [Orel]; your cup is always half empty. You need to be more like your old man and look at the [blight] side of things. Orel: [Blight]? Clay: I didn't say bright, I said blight. "My life is sunny and blight". Bright means the opposite, it means sudden [withering] death, and...(Suddenly despondent)...Oh, who am I kidding? My life is full of bright. Orel: You mean blight? Clay: Oh God... Orel: What's the matter? Clay: ...I hate myself... ❋ Gamering Gamers (2022)

that David is a [blight],he walked into the room and immediately [my team] [conceded] a goal ❋ Poeticmakaveli (2014)

Really bad weather, fatally boring lecture, disease, [Armageddon], [how you feel] when someone takes the last [slice of pizza], etc. ex: How blightful, the world is ending. ❋ Blightful (2012)

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