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Synonyms for blight

Grammar : Noun, verb
Spell : blahyt
Phonetic Transcription : blaɪt

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Définition of blight

Origin :
  • 1610s, origin obscure; according to OED it emerged into literary speech from the talk of gardeners and farmers, perhaps ultimately from Old English blæce, blæcðu, a scrofulous skin condition and/or from Old Norse blikna "become pale." Used in a general way of agricultural diseases, sometimes with suggestion of "invisible baleful influence;" hence figurative sense of "anything which withers hopes or prospects or checks prosperity" (1828). Cf. slang blighter. Urban blight attested by 1935.
  • noun disease; plague
  • verb ruin, destroy
Example sentences :
  • Flowers in Summer warmth delight:— What of Winter and its blight?
  • Extract from : « What Sami Sings with the Birds » by Johanna Spyri
  • Was poverty going to blight their spring with its chill breath?
  • Extract from : « Doctor Pascal » by Emile Zola
  • They moved on, little dreaming of the ruin and blight they had left behind them.
  • Extract from : « Pretty Madcap Dorothy » by Laura Jean Libbey
  • Yields largely and is less liable to blight than any other variety.
  • Extract from : « Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 4, January 26, 1884 » by Various
  • There is a blight on the land; the people are starving—dying.
  • Extract from : « The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II) » by Charles James Lever
  • It may be—as Miss Martin writes—that 'there is a blight on the land.'
  • Extract from : « The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II) » by Charles James Lever
  • It fell like a blight on all the merriment about donkeys, pyramids, bazaars, or what not.
  • Extract from : « Lord Jim » by Joseph Conrad
  • I'd care more about a blight in the potatoes than for all the politics in Europe.
  • Extract from : « Barrington » by Charles James Lever
  • Slavery left its blight of impotency and profligacy upon them.
  • Extract from : « The American Missionary -- Volume 38, No. 01, January, 1884 » by Various
  • The knowledge of this seemed to blight, as with a lightning flash, every hope of her life.
  • Extract from : « The Masked Bridal » by Mrs. Georgie Sheldon

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