blighting


blight

B0323100 (blīt)n.1. a. Any of numerous plant diseases resulting in sudden conspicuous wilting and dying of affected parts, especially young, growing tissues.b. The condition or causative agent, such as a bacterium, fungus, or virus, that results in blight.2. a. An agent or action that harms or ruins the value or success of something: "the heavy-handed, moralistic parenting that was the blight of the traditional family" (Theodore Roszack).b. A condition or result of harmful or ruinous action: policies that lifted the city from economic blight.v. blight·ed, blight·ing, blights v.tr.1. To cause (a plant, for example) to undergo blight.2. To have a deleterious effect on; ruin. See Synonyms at blast.v.intr. To suffer blight.
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