Word
Blight
How many syllables?
1 Syllable
How it's divided?
blight
Definition
- v. t. - To affect with blight; to blast; to prevent the growth
and fertility of.
- v. t. - Hence: To destroy the happiness of; to ruin; to mar
essentially; to frustrate; as, to blight one's prospects.
- v. i. - To be affected by blight; to blast; as, this vine never
blights.
- n. - 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.
- n. - 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.
- n. - That which frustrates one's plans or withers one's hopes;
that which impairs or destroys.
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