Other forms: blights
A blight is a disease that ruins plants, or anything that spoils. Potato blight, blighted crops, the blight of poverty.
The potato blight that struck Ireland from 1845 is the most consequential plant disease in European history; it was a fungus-like organism and it killed or drove out millions. Urban blight is the figurative use, meaning decay across a whole district.
1nounblightA disease that ruins plants, or anything that spoils.
“Blight destroyed the tomato plants, turning their leaves brown and black.”
blight is a disease, or a ruin.
BLIGHT → a BITE that takes the whole field
A bite goes through the leaves and by the end of the week the field is brown.
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The origin is unknown; the word appears in English in the seventeenth century for a sudden ruin of crops.
Proto-Indo-European
*bʰleyǵ-
English, today
blight
The etymology of the noun is; suggested derivations include the following:
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