blight
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/blaɪt/
🇬🇧
/blaɪt/
verb
R
to negatively impact or ruin something, especially by causing many problems
His career has been blighted by injuries.
noun
R
a disease that kills plants, especially agricultural crops
Many areas have been devastated by blights which destroyed cereal crops and vines.
R
something that negatively affects a situation, a person's life, or the environment
His death cast a blight on the whole of that year.
translation
to negatively impact or ruin something, especially by causing many problems
a disease that kills plants, especially agricultural crops; something that negatively affects a situation, a person's life, or the environment
Word Forms
Perfect
blighted
Past
blighted
Progressive
blighting
Plural
blights
3rd Present
blights