1) Bane 2) Damage 3) Evil 4) Eyesore 5) Mar 6) Nuisance 7) Plague 8) Ruin
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1) Cause to suffer a blight 2) Crop attacker 3) DC Comics alien 4) Decay 5) Desolation 6) Devastation 7) English surname 8) Exclusively Saxon word 9) Exclusively Anglo word 10) Farming disaster 11) Impair 12) Irish play 13) Orchard disaster 14) Orchard problem 15) Plague 16) Plant disease 17) Potato disease
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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 symptom are called blights. Several notable examples are...
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[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 the play reflects Gogarty`s belief that only a compl...
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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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• (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; as, to blight one`s prospects. • (n.) Mildew...
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[Verb] To spoil or destroy.
Example: His childhood was blighted by poor health.
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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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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. 'Seared in heart and lone and blighted.' (Byron)...
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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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Blight (blīt)
transitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Blighted ;
present participle & verbal noun Blighting .] [ Perh. contr. from Anglo-Saxon
blīcettan to glitter, from the same root as English
bleak . T...
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Blight intransitive verb To be affected by blight; to blast; as, this vine never
blights .
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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. The act of blighting, or the state of being bligh...
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A plant disease, especially one caused by fungi such as mildew and rust.
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[
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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A disease characterized by sudden, severe, and extensive spotting, discoloration, wilting, or destruction of leaves, flowers, stems, or entire plants, usually attacking young, growing tissues (in disease names, often coupled with the name of the affected part of the host, e.g., leaf blight, blossom blight, shoot blight).
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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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noun a state or condition being blighted
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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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· the rapid and extensive discoloration, wilting, and death of plant tissues. · a disease so characterized.
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a disease that creates brown, circular patches in the lawn; if left untreated, it will grow to affect large areas of grass. Controlling this unsightly condition requires that you irrigate properly and apply controls, such as GardenTech® Daconil® Fungicide.
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