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blight
blight is a 6-letter English word with 11 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To affect with blight; to blast; to prevent the growth and fertility of. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 14 · 11 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To affect with blight; to blast; to prevent the growth and fertility of.
- 2transitive verb
Hence: To destroy the happiness of; to ruin; to mar essentially; to frustrate; as, to blight one's prospects.
- 3intransitive verb
To be affected by blight; to blast; as, this vine never blights.
- 4noun
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.
- 5noun
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.
- 6noun
That which frustrates one's plans or withers one's hopes; that which impairs or destroys.
- 7noun
A downy species of aphis, or plant louse, destructive to fruit trees, infesting both the roots and branches; -- also applied to several other injurious insects.
- 8noun
A rashlike eruption on the human skin.
- 9noun
any plant disease resulting in withering without rotting
- 10noun
a state or condition being blighted
- 11verb
cause to suffer a blight
"Too much rain may blight the garden with mold"
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