disease, plague, scourge; affliction, destruction
destroy, ruin; cause to wither and die (of a plant)
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Blight Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
(v. t.)
To affect with blight; to blast; to prevent the growth and fertility of.
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.
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.
To be affected by blight; to blast; as, this vine never blights.
(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.
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.
That which frustrates one's plans or withers one's hopes; that which impairs or destroys.
(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.
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.)
A rashlike eruption on the human skin.
A rashlike eruption on the human skin.
(n.)
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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter. AboutA downy species of aphis, or plant louse, destructive to fruit trees, infesting both the roots and branches; -- also applied to several other injurious insects.
blight
\blight\ (blīt), v. t. [imp. & p. p. blighted; p. pr. & vb. n. blighting.] [perh. contr. from as. blīcettan to glitter, fr. the same root as e. bleak. the meaning "to blight" comes in that case from to glitter, hence, to be white or pale, grow pale, make pale, bleach. cf. bleach, bleak.]
1. to affect with blight; to blast; to prevent the growth and fertility of. [this vapor] blasts vegetables, blights corn and fruit, and is sometimes injurious even to man.
2. hence: to destroy the happiness of; to ruin; to mar essentially; to frustrate; as, to blight one's prospects. seared in heart and lone and blighted.
blight
\blight\, v. i. to be affected by blight; to blast; as, this vine never blights.
blight
\blight\, n. 1. 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.
2. 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.
3. that which frustrates one's plans or withers one's hopes; that which impairs or destroys. a blight seemed to have fallen over our fortunes. --disraeli.
4. (zo?l.) 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.
5. pl. a rashlike eruption on the human skin. [u. s.]
similar words(10)
late blight
leaf blight
american blight
thread blight
apple blight
moth blight
rim blight
tomato blight
twig blight
walnut blight
Grai = n. a blight, a blast
Melli, Mellni = n. blight
plant disease ;V: infect with blight ;ruin ;destroy***The farmers were facing a serious problem, because the second season of crops were also blighted.
Noun
1. a state or condition being blighted
(hypernym) devastation, desolation
(derivation) plague
2. any plant disease resulting in withering without rotting
(hypernym) plant disease
(hyponym) alder blight
(derivation) plague
Verb
1. cause to suffer a blight; "Too much rain may blight the garden with mold"
(synonym) plague
(hypernym) afflict, smite
Blight Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
Blight refers to a specific symptom affecting plants in response to infection by a pathogenic organism. It is simply a rapid and complete chlorosis, browning, then death of plant tissues such as leaves, branches, twigs, or floral organs. Accordingly, many diseases that primarily exhibit this symptom are called blights. Several notable examples are:
- Late blight of potato, caused by the water mold Phytophthora infestans (Mont.) de Bary, the disease which led to the Great Irish Famine
- Southern corn leaf blight, caused by the fungus Cochliobolus heterostrophus (Drechs.) Drechs, anamorph Bipolaris maydis (Nisikado & Miyake) Shoemaker, incited a severe loss of corn in the United States in 1970.
- Chestnut blight, caused by the fungus Cryphonectria parasitica (Murrill) Barr, has nearly completely eradicated mature American chestnuts in North America.
- Fire blight of pome fruits, caused by the bacterium Erwinia amylovora (Burrill) Winslow et al., is the most severe disease of pear and also is found in apple and raspberry, among others.
- Bacterial leaf blight of rice, caused by the bacterium Xanthomonas oryzae (Uyeda & Ishiyama) Dowson.
- Early blight of potato and tomato, caused by species of the ubiquitous fungal genus Alternaria
- Leaf blight of the grasses
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