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noun. 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.

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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.

intransitive verb. 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.

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.

noun. 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. 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. That which frustrates one's plans or withers one's hopes; that which impairs or destroys.

noun. A downy species of aphis, or plant louse, destructive to fruit trees, infesting both the roots and branches; -- also applied to several other injurious insects.

noun. A rashlike eruption on the human skin.

intransitive verb. To be affected by blight; to blast.

transitive verb. To affect with blight; to blast; to prevent the growth and fertility of.

transitive verb. Hence: To destroy the happiness of; to ruin; to mar essentially; to frustrate.

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

noun. the bacterium, virus or fungus that causes such a condition

noun. anything that impedes growth or development or spoils any other aspect of life

verb. to suffer blight

verb. to cause to suffer blight

verb. to spoil or ruin (something)

noun. any plant disease resulting in withering without rotting

noun. a state or condition being blighted

verb. cause to suffer a blight

"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."

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