blight
blight
(blaɪt )Word forms: plural, 3rd person singular present tense blights , present participle blighting , past tense, past participle blighted
1. variable noun
You can refer to something as a blight when it causes great difficulties, and damages or spoils other things.
This discriminatory policy has really been a blight on America.
Manchester still suffers from urban blight and unacceptable poverty.
2. verb
If something blights your life or your hopes, it damages and spoils them. If something blights an area, it spoils it and makes it unattractive.
An embarrassing blunder nearly blighted his career before it got off the ground. [VERB noun]
...thousands of families whose lives were blighted by unemployment. [VERB noun]
...a strategy to redevelop blighted inner-city areas. [VERB-ed]
