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- pronunciation:
- blaIt
- parts of speech:
- noun, verb
- features:
- Word Explorer
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noun |
| definition 1: |
a plant disease that destroys parts or all of a plant.
Potato blight caused a great famine in Ireland in the mid-1800s.- similar words:
- disease, rot
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| definition 2: |
anything that spoils or destroys.
The gang is a blight on our community.- similar words:
- affliction, cancer, corruption, decay, disease, plague, poison
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| related words: |
enemy, mold, pest |
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| part of speech: |
verb |
| inflections: |
blights, blighting, blighted |
| definition: |
to spoil, ruin, or destroy.
Lack of money blighted his plans for the future.- synonyms:
- blast, destroy, devastate, frustrate, ruin, spoil
- similar words:
- dash, kill, poison
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| related words: |
curse, pollute, spoil |
| derivation: |
blightingly (adv.) |
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