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Synonyms for blighted

Grammar : Verb
Spell : blahyt
Phonetic Transcription : blaɪt

Top 10 synonyms for blighted
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Définition of blighted

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.
  • verb ruin, destroy
Example sentences :
  • He shaded the dinner, cooled the wines, chilled the gravy, and blighted the vegetables.
  • Extract from : « Little Dorrit » by Charles Dickens
  • Had she not deceived me, injured me—blighted my happiness for life?
  • Extract from : « The Tenant of Wildfell Hall » by Anne Bronte
  • I have blighted and withered the affections of his heart to that extent that he is not sure of me.
  • Extract from : « Life And Adventures Of Martin Chuzzlewit » by Charles Dickens
  • It is some comfort to know that everything will not be blighted hereabouts.
  • Extract from : « Barnaby Rudge » by Charles Dickens
  • There can be no doubt about it: we are blighted by the great destructiveness.
  • Extract from : « Mountain Meditations » by L. Lind-af-Hageby
  • Some great sorrow must have overtaken him and blighted his whole life.
  • Extract from : « The Captain of the Pole-Star and Other Tales » by Arthur Conan Doyle
  • If the potatoes were blighted, she had looked over the hedge at them.
  • Extract from : « The Little Manx Nation - 1891 » by Hall Caine
  • Well, we're going to be blighted Argonauts, but we've got to get busy over our outfits.
  • Extract from : « The Trail of '98 » by Robert W. Service
  • There was a good show of blossom, but when it came to the apples, every one was blighted.
  • Extract from : « Grandmother Dear » by Mrs. Molesworth
  • The child receives but a blighted memory of its father's stripes.
  • Extract from : « Marriage and Love » by Emma Goldman

Antonyms for blighted

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