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blightblight2 verb [transitive] VERB TABLEblight |
Present | I, you, we, they | blight | | he, she, it | blights | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | blighted | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have blighted | | he, she, it | has blighted | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had blighted | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will blight | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have blighted |
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Present | I | am blighting | | he, she, it | is blighting | | you, we, they | are blighting | Past | I, he, she, it | was blighting | | you, we, they | were blighting | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been blighting | | he, she, it | has been blighting | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been blighting | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be blighting | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been blighting |
- Rusty cans and plastic wrappers are blighting our wilderness areas.
- The country is blighted by poverty.
- David and Barbara Owen say the property is blighted by plans for a bypass just yards away.
- Despite such inside knowledge, the opening passages were racked with nervousness and blighted by a series of up-and-unders.
- Life may be regarded as an austere struggle, blighted by fate, where only the rich and the lucky fare well.
- Many considered the Booker Washington area hopelessly blighted.
- No one kept track of exactly how many were mistreated, but several thousand deaths blight the record of Ferdinand and Isabelia.
- The atmosphere was being poisoned, every green thing blighted, and every stream fouled with chemical fumes and waste.
to spoil or damage something, especially by preventing people from doing what they want to do: a disease which, though not fatal, can blight the lives of its victims a country blighted by poverty—blight‧ed adjective: blighted hopes |