Definitions for blights

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blights blight

Spelling: [blahyt]

IPA: /blaɪt/

Blights is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 135 anagrams from letters in blights (bghilst).

Definitions for blights

noun

1. Plant Pathology. the rapid and extensive discoloration, wilting, and death of plant tissues. a disease so characterized.
2. any cause of impairment, destruction, ruin, or frustration:
3. the state or result of being blighted or deteriorated; dilapidation; decay:

verb (used with object)

1. to cause to wither or decay; blast:
2. to destroy; ruin; frustrate:

verb (used without object)

1. to suffer blight.

Origin of blights

First recorded in 1605-15; of uncertain origin

Examples for blights

They moved on, little dreaming of the ruin and blight they had left behind them.

Increasingly, cities long left to rot are rising from the ashes of blight as they try to become shining examples of new urbanism.

It may be—as Miss Martin writes—that 'there is a blight on the land.'

Yields largely and is less liable to blight than any other variety.

Flowers in Summer warmth delight:— What of Winter and its blight?

It fell like a blight on all the merriment about donkeys, pyramids, bazaars, or what not.

Others announced layoffs and cutbacks and every manner of cancer and blight.

I'd care more about a blight in the potatoes than for all the politics in Europe.

Was poverty going to blight their spring with its chill breath?

There is a blight on the land; the people are starving—dying.