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Type Words
Synonyms plague
Type of afflict, smite


Too much rain may blight the garden with mold.
Type Words
Type of plant disease
Has types apple blight, apple canker, bean blight, beet blight, blister blight, cane blight, chestnut-bark disease, chestnut blight, chestnut canker, coffee blight, collar blight, alder blight, tomato blight, tomato yellows, twig blight, walnut blight, halo blight, halo spot, head blight, late blight, leaf blight, peach blight, potato blight, potato disease, potato mildew, potato mold, potato murrain, rim blight, spinach blight, spur blight, stem blight, stripe blight, thread blight
Type Words
Type of devastation, desolation

Examples of blight

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Pastor Rock Carpenter came to Sugar Hill to erase decades of poverty and blight.
From the dallasnews.com
More blight-resistant trees will be planted next year in Tennessee and Virginia.
From the newsobserver.com
Another potential problem is blight, which likes the same weather the plants do.
From the post-gazette.com
It's a step supporters say will clean up local blight and improve neighborhoods.
From the thestate.com
The late fungus blight, as the dastardly disease is called, didn't affect Texas.
From the kentucky.com
We are surrounded by mature madrone trees that are dying of some sort of blight.
From the sacbee.com
There are many of these images to close from as we'll as the pictures of blight.
From the economist.com
Driving past the creek and having all the mud and muck was a blight on the city.
From the heraldtribune.com
And he must avoid visiting yet more blight on our vulnerable people and regions.
From the guardian.co.uk
More examples
  • A state or condition being blighted
  • Cause to suffer a blight; "Too much rain may blight the garden with mold"
  • Any plant disease resulting in withering without rotting
  • (blighted) affected by blight; anything that mars or prevents growth or prosperity; "a blighted rose"; "blighted urban districts"
  • Blight is an American hardcore punk supergroup from Lansing, Michigan. Their members came from other Lansing hardcore groups.
  • The Blight are techno-organic beings from the 30th Century whose bodies are composed of rotting flesh and technology. They started off searching galaxies in quest of immortality. Along the way, they met a powerful race, known as the Doda, with the ability to teleport across galaxies.
  • Outpost 2, fully titled Outpost 2: Divided Destiny, is a real-time strategy computer game developed by Dynamix, released in 1997 by Sierra Entertainment. It reuses and refines some of the concepts from the original Outpost, but there is no direct continuity between the storylines or the gameplay.
  • Blight: The Tragedy of Dublin is a play by Oliver St. John Gogarty. One of the earliest Irish "slum dramas", it focuses on the horrific conditions prevalent in Dublin's tenements and the ineffectuality of the medical and charitable institutions set up to combat them. ...
  • The Combaticons (known as the Combatrons in Japan) are a group of Decepticon military vehicles in the assorted fictional universes of the Transformers.