verb, noun
verb [VN] to spoil or damage sth, especially by causing a lot of problems:
His career has been blighted by injuries. * an area blighted by unemployment
Part of speech: noun
1 [U,C] any disease that kills plants, especially crops:
potato blight * Many areas have been devastated by blights which destroyed cereal crops and vines.
2 [sing.,U] ~ (on sb/sth) something that has a bad effect on a situation, a person's life or the environment:
His death cast a blight on the whole of that year. * urban blight (= ugly or neglected areas in a city) * Her divorce was a great blight on her life.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for blight is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is blight a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, blight is tagged as noun.
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