blight

/balit/

Thân thiện

The heavy rain may blight the garden with mold.

Definition

1. Noun:

   • A plant disease: A specific condition that causes plants to wither, decay, or die, often without rotting.
   • A damaging or destructive force: Something that spoils, damages, or destroys the quality or success of something.

2. Verb:

   • To affect with blight: To cause a plant disease or a condition of withering.
   • To spoil or ruin: To have a severely detrimental effect on something, impairing its growth, development, or success.

Examples

• Noun:

  • Potato blight destroyed the crop. (A plant disease caused the potatoes to wither and die.)
  • Urban decay is a blight on the city. (Urban decay is a destructive force harming the city.)

• Verb:

  • The frost blighted the early blossoms. (The frost caused the blossoms to wither and die.)
  • His career was blighted by the scandal. (The scandal ruined his career.)

Advanced Usage

• "Blight" as an uncountable noun for a general condition:

  • The area is suffering from economic blight. (The area is suffering from a general condition of economic decay.)

• "Blighted" as an adjective:

  • They walked through the blighted landscape. (They walked through the landscape that was ruined or diseased.)

Variants and Related Words

• Blighted (adj): Affected by blight; ruined or spoiled.

  • a blighted neighborhood

• Blighting (adj/n): The act or process of causing blight.

  • the blighting effect of pollution

Synonyms

• Noun (disease): Mildew, rust, canker.
• Noun (force): Curse, scourge, plague.
• Verb: Mar, spoil, ruin, devastate.

Phrasal Verbs / Common Collocations

• To blight with: To afflict or ruin something by means of a specific agent.
  • The valley was blighted with drought. (The valley was ruined by drought.)

Related Idioms

• A blight on the landscape: Something that spoils the appearance of a place.
  • The old factory is a blight on the landscape. (The old factory ruins the view of the area.)

Học thuật

Noun

1. any plant disease resulting in withering without rotting
2. a state or condition being blighted

Verb

1. cause to suffer a blight
   • Too much rain may blight the garden with mold

Từ đồng nghĩa

• plague