Look up: blight

1. blight
   A disease characterized by rapid and extensive death of plant foliage. A general term applied to any of a wide range of unrelated plant diseases. (e.g., chestnut blight, fireblight, late blight, halo blight)
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2. Blight
   Decline of neighbourhoods earmarked for redevelopment. Sometimes referred to as planning blight, the decline usually involves a fall in house prices.
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3. Blight
   Common name for a number of different diseases on plants characterised by the rapid death of plant tissue e.g. leaf blight, blossom blight, shoot blight.
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4. blight
   [Verb] To spoil or destroy.
   Example: His childhood was blighted by poor health.
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5. blight
   [n] - a state or condition being blighted 2. [n] - any plant disease resulting in withering without rotting 3. [v] - cause to suffer a blight
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6. blight
   any disease,or(occasionally)a pest,associated with an often rapid wilting and dieback of foliage,flowers and even shoots Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries
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7. Blight
   Blight (blīt) transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Blighted ; present participle & verbal noun Blighting .] [ Perh. contr. from Anglo-Saxon blīcettan to glitte...
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8. Blight
   Blight intransitive verb To be affected by blight; to blast; as, this vine never blights .
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9. Blight
   Blight noun 1. Mildew; decay; anything nipping or blasting; -- applied as a general name to various injuries or diseases of plants, causing the whole or a part to wither, whether occasioned by insects, fungi, or atmospheric influences. 2. ...
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10. blight
    1. To affect with blight; to blast; to prevent the growth and fertility of. '[This vapor] blasts vegetables, blights corn and fruit, and is sometimes injurious even to man.' (Woodward) ... 2. Hence: To destroy the happiness of; to ruin; to mar essentially; to frustrate; as, to blight one's prospects...
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11. blight
    noun a state or condition being blighted
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12. blight
    plague verb cause to suffer a blight; `Too much rain may blight the garden with mold`
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13. Blight
    • (n.) The act of blighting, or the state of being blighted; a withering or mildewing, or a stoppage of growth in the whole or a part of a plant, etc. • (n.) A rashlike eruption on the human skin. • (v. t.) Hence: To destroy the happiness of; to ruin; to mar essentially; to frustrate;...
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14. blight
    any of various plant diseases whose symptoms include sudden and severe yellowing, browning, spotting, withering, or dying of leaves, flowers, fruit, ... [1 related articles]
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15. Blight
    Blight refers to a specific symptom affecting plants in response to infection by a pathogenic organism. It is simply a rapid and complete chlorosis, browning, then death of plant tissues such as leaves, branches, twigs, or floral organs. Accordingly, many diseases that primarily exhibit this sympto...
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16. blight
    blight, general term for any sudden and severe plant disease or for the agent that causes it. The term is now applied chiefly to diseases caused by bacteria (e.g., bean blights and fire blight of fruit trees), viruses (e.g., soybean bud blight), fungi (e.g., chestnut blight), and protists (e.g., pot...
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17. blight
    Any of a number of plant diseases caused mainly by parasitic species of fungus, which produce a whitish appearance on leaf and stem surfaces; for example, potato blight Phytophthora infestans. General damage caused by aphids or pollution is sometimes known as blight. In 1998 a new virulent strain of P. infestans
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18. blight
    A plant disease, especially one caused by fungi such as mildew and rust.
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19. Blight
    [band] ==History== Blight was formed by The Meatmen`s Tesco Vee, The Fix`s Steve Miller and Mike Achtenberg, and Pat Clark. They came together in Lansing, Michigan in 1982 after the Fix broke up. They opened for some notable acts including The Dead Kennedys. The band finally broke up later i...
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20. Blight
    [play] Blight: The Tragedy of Dublin is a play by Oliver St. John Gogarty. One of the earliest Irish "slum dramas", it focuses on the horrific conditions prevalent in Dublin`s tenements and the ineffectuality of the medical and charitable institutions set up to combat them. The message of th...
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21. Blight
    [comics] For the Batman Beyond supervillain of the same name, see: Derek Powers. The Blight are techno-organic beings from the 30th Century whose bodies are composed of rotting flesh and technology. They started off searching galaxies in quest of immortality. Along the way, they met a powerf...
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