| 单词 | blight |
| 释义 | blight (once / 825 pages) nv A blight is a disease that hurts plants and makes their leaves wither. It can also affect neighborhoods. Urban blight refers to a part of the city where things are falling apart. Blight rhymes with bright, but it’s the opposite of sunshine; instead of making plants grow, it cripples them. The Irish Potato Famine was an example of a blight. In 1845, more than a third of the potato crops were ruined. The plants turned black and their leaves dried up and people who relied on potatoes for most of their meals also withered and experienced extreme hardship and hunger. You might want to think of it this way: a blight makes people — or plants — fight for their lives. WORD FAMILYblight: blighted, blighter, blighting, blights+/blighter: blighters USAGE EXAMPLESOther demolitions in Evansville are done through a federal Blight Elimination Project. Washington Times(Dec 31, 2016) But the area still struggles with blight, crime and underdevelopment, so Cinderhouse and others see the arts as a potential catalyst for progress. Washington Times(Dec 30, 2016) City planning department records show the commercial warehouse was visited by code inspectors repeatedly for blight conditions. Los Angeles Times(Dec 28, 2016) 1n any plant disease resulting in withering without rotting Hypo|Hyper alder blight a disease of alders caused by the woolly alder aphid (a plant louse) apple blight, apple cankera disease of apple trees beet blighta disease of beet plants blister blighta disease of tea plants blister blighta disease of Scotch pines cane blighta disease affecting the canes of various bush fruits (e.g., raspberries or currants) chestnut blight, chestnut canker, chestnut-bark diseasea disease of American chestnut trees coffee blighta blight affecting the coffee plant collar blighta disease affecting the trunks of pear and apple trees bean blight, halo blight, halo spota blight of bean plants halo blighta blight affecting the leaves of oats and other grasses head blighta blight of the heads of cereals late blightblight in which symptoms appear late in the growing season especially a disease of solanaceous plants caused by the fungus Phytophthora infestans leaf blightany blight causing a browning and falling of the leaves of a plant peach blighta disease of trees bearing drupes potato blight, potato disease, potato mildew, potato mold, potato murraina blight of potatoes rim blighta disease of tea plants spinach blighta disease of spinach plants spur blighta disease of raspberries stem blighta fungous blight attacking the stems of plants stripe blighta disease of oats thread blighta disease of tropical woody plants (cacao or tea or citrus) tomato blight, tomato yellowsa disease of tomato plants twig blighta disease of the ends of twigs of woody plants walnut blighta disease of English walnut trees celery blighta fungous leaf spot disease of the celery plant fire blight, pear blighta disease blackening the leaves of pear and apple trees wheat scaba disease of the heads of wheat plants leaf cast, needle blight, needle casta disease of conifers causing the needles to fall plant disease a disease that affects plants 2n a state or condition being blighted Hyper desolation, devastation the state of being decayed or destroyed 3v cause to suffer a blight Too much rain may blight the garden with mold Syn|Hyper plague afflict, smite cause physical pain or suffering in |
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