| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| PRONUNCIATION: |  bl t |
| NOUN: | 1a. 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. An extremely adverse environmental condition, such as air pollution. 3. Something that impairs growth, withers hopes and ambitions, or impedes progress and prosperity. | | VERB: | Inflected forms: blight·ed, blight·ing, blights
| | TRANSITIVE VERB: | 1. To cause (a plant, for example) to undergo blight. 2. To have a deleterious effect on; ruin. See synonyms at blast. | | INTRANSITIVE VERB: | To suffer blight. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Origin unknown.
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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