Blight | Mean of blight in English Dictionary

/ˈblaɪt/

• Noun
• a disease that makes plants dry up and die
1. potato blight
• something that causes harm or damage like a disease
1. the blight of poverty in the city
2. The abandoned factory is a blight on the neighborhood.
• a damaged condition
1. the city's spreading urban blight
2. environmental blight
• Verb

• to damage (plants) with a disease
1. The apple trees were blighted by fungus.
• to damage (a thing or place)
1. Builders blighted the land with malls and parking lots.