BLIGHT

Meaning of BLIGHT in English

[verb], [noun] - (to cause) disease and death in plants or severe damage to thingsA potato blight destroyed the main food supply of Irish peasants in the 1840s, and hundreds of thousands starved to death. [C]His arrival cast a blight on (= spoiled) the wedding day. [U]A broken leg blighted (= spoiled) her chances of winning the ballroom dancing championship. [T]

Cambridge English vocab. Кембриджский английский словарь. 2012

BLIGHT — Any of various plant diseases whose symptoms include sudden and severe yellowing, browning, spotting, withering, or dying of leaves, flowers, …
Английский словарь Британика
BLIGHT
Webster's New International English Dictionary
BLIGHT — (v. i.) To be affected by blight; to blast; as, this vine never blights.
Английский словарь Webster
BLIGHT — (v. t.) Hence: To destroy the happiness of; to ruin; to mar essentially; to frustrate; as, to blight one's prospects.
Английский словарь Webster
BLIGHT — (v. t.) To affect with blight; to blast; to prevent the growth and fertility of.
Английский словарь Webster
BLIGHT — ( v. t. ) To affect with blight; to blast; to prevent the growth and fertility of.
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
BLIGHT — ( v. t. ) Hence: To destroy the happiness of; to ruin; to mar essentially; to frustrate; as, to blight …
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
BLIGHT — ( v. i. ) To be affected by blight; to blast; as, this vine never blights.
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
BLIGHT — — blightingly , adv. /bluyt/ , n. 1. Plant Pathol. a. the rapid and extensive discoloration, wilting, and death of …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
BLIGHT — I. ˈblīt noun Etymology: origin unknown Date: 1578 1. a. : a disease or injury of plants marked by the …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
BLIGHT — noun a rashlike eruption on the human skin. 2. blight ·vi to be affected by blight; to blast; as, this …
Webster English vocab
BLIGHT — [blight] n [origin unknown] (1611) 1 a: a disease or injury of plants resulting in withering, cessation of growth, and …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
BLIGHT — any of various plant diseases whose symptoms include sudden and severe yellowing, browning, spotting, withering, or dying of leaves, flowers, …
Britannica English vocabulary
BLIGHT — blight BrE AmE blaɪt ▷ blighted ˈblaɪt ɪd -əd AmE ˈblaɪt̬ əd ▷ blighting ˈblaɪt ɪŋ AmE ˈblaɪt̬ ɪŋ ▷ …
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
BLIGHT — / blaɪt; NAmE / verb , noun ■ verb [ vn ] to spoil or damage sth, especially by causing …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
BLIGHT — I. blight 1 /blaɪt/ BrE AmE noun 1 . [singular, uncountable] an unhealthy condition of plants in which parts of …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
BLIGHT — n. & v. --n. 1 any plant disease caused by mildews, rusts, smuts, fungi, or insects. 2 any insect or …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
BLIGHT — n. & v. n. 1 any plant disease caused by mildews, rusts, smuts, fungi, or insects. 2 any insect or …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
BLIGHT — n. & v. --n. 1. any plant disease caused by mildews, rusts, smuts, fungi, or insects. 2 any insect or …
Oxford English vocab
BLIGHT — ( blights, blighting, blighted) 1. You can refer to something as a blight when it causes great difficulties, and damages …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
BLIGHT — (~s, ~ing, ~ed) 1. You can refer to something as a ~ when it causes great difficulties, and damages or …
Collins COBUILD - Толковый словарь английского языка для изучающих язык
BLIGHT — I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN planning ▪ The introduction of the new type of development plan under the …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
BLIGHT — n. Any of various plant diseases whose symptoms include sudden and severe yellowing, browning, spotting, withering, or dying of leaves, …
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
BLIGHT — verb Blight is used with these nouns as the object: ↑ prospect
Oxford Collocations English Dictionary
BLIGHT — n. 25B6; noun potato blight : DISEASE, canker, infestation, fungus, mildew, mould. the blight of aircraft noise : AFFLICTION, scourge, …
Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary
BLIGHT — n. 1 affliction, disease, plague, infestation, pestilence, scourge The crops were visited with a blight that lasted seven years 2 …
Oxford Thesaurus English vocab
BLIGHT — blight.ogg 1. blaıt n 1. болезнь растений, характеризующаяся завяданием, прекращением роста, опаданием листьев без гниения 2. 1> насекомые-паразиты на растениях …
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
BLIGHT — 1. blaıt n 1. болезнь растений, характеризующаяся завяданием, прекращением роста, опаданием листьев без гниения 2. 1> насекомые-паразиты на растениях 2> …
Большой новый Англо-Русский словарь
BLIGHT — заболевание растений, характеризующееся завяданием, гниением или прекращением роста (возбудители - грибы, насекомые, бактерии, вирусы) - blueberry blossom blight - celery early blight - …
Новый Англо-Русский словарь по биологии
BLIGHT — заболевание растений, характеризующееся завяданием, гниением или прекращением роста ( возбудители - грибы, насекомые, бактерии, вирусы ) - blueberry blossom blight …
Новый Англо-Русский биологический словарь
BLIGHT — (plants) peste; degeneration; v. frustrar; (wither; far marcir
English interlingue dictionary
BLIGHT — I. noun Etymology: origin unknown Date: 1578 1. a disease or injury of plants marked by the formation of lesions, …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
BLIGHT — (n.) A rashlike eruption on the human skin.
Английский словарь Webster
BLIGHT — (n.) A downy species of aphis, or plant louse, destructive to fruit trees, infesting both the roots and branches; -- …
Английский словарь Webster
BLIGHT — (n.) That which frustrates one's plans or withers one's hopes; that which impairs or destroys.
Английский словарь Webster
BLIGHT — (n.) The act of blighting, or the state of being blighted; a withering or mildewing, or a stoppage of growth …
Английский словарь Webster
BLIGHT — (n.) Mildew; decay; anything nipping or blasting; -- applied as a general name to various injuries or diseases of plants, …
Английский словарь Webster
BLIGHT — ( n. ) The act of blighting, or the state of being blighted; a withering or mildewing, or a stoppage …
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
BLIGHT — ( n. ) That which frustrates one's plans or withers one's hopes; that which impairs or destroys.
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
BLIGHT — ( n. ) Mildew; decay; anything nipping or blasting; -- applied as a general name to various injuries or diseases …
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
BLIGHT — ( n. ) A rashlike eruption on the human skin.
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
BLIGHT — ( n. ) A downy species of aphis, or plant louse, destructive to fruit trees, infesting both the roots and …
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
BLIGHT — v. destroy, ruin; cause to wither and die (of a plant)
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
BLIGHT — n. disease, plague, scourge; affliction, destruction
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
BLIGHT — n. chestnut blight fire blight late blight potato blight
Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary
BLIGHT — n. Function: transitive verb Date: 1664 1 : to affect (as a plant) with blight 2 : to impair the …
Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary
BLIGHT — n. Pronunciation: ' bl ī t Function: noun Etymology: origin unknown Date: 1578 1 a : a disease or injury …
Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary
BLIGHT — ■ noun 1》 a plant disease, especially one caused by fungi such as mildews, rusts, and smuts. 2》 a thing …
Concise Oxford English vocab
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Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
BLIGHT — n. Function: verb Synonyms: BLAST 1, dash, nip
Collegiate Thesaurus English vocab
BLIGHT — I . n. Pestilence ( among plants ), mildew, blast, withering. II . v. a. 1. Blast, wither, shrivel, kill, …
Dictionary of English Synonyms
BLIGHT — verb Synonyms: blast 1, dash, nip
Collegiate Thesaurus English vocabulary
BLIGHT — verb
Oxford Collocations Dictionary Second Edition
BLIGHT — n. 1) to cast, put a ~ on, upon 2) a potato ~ 3) urban ~ 4) a ~ on …
The Bbi Combinatory Dictionary of English - A Guide to Word Combinations
BLIGHT — 1. сущ. 1) болезнь растений, приводящая к прекращению роста и гибели части растений без загнивания 2) тля и другие насекомые-паразиты …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
BLIGHT — Болезнь растений
Американский Англо-Русский словарь
BLIGHT — blight сущ.1) болезнь растений, приводящая к прекращению роста и гибели части растений без загнивания 2) тля и другие насекомые-паразиты (поражающие …
Англо-Русский словарь Tiger
BLIGHT — (v) навредить; приносить вред; разрушать
English-Russian Lingvistica'98 dictionary
BLIGHT — (n) вред; гибель; упадок
English-Russian Lingvistica'98 dictionary
BLIGHT — 1. [blaıt] n 1. болезнь растений, характеризующаяся завяданием, прекращением роста, опаданием листьев без гниения 2. 1) насекомые-паразиты на растениях 2) …
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь - Апресян, Медникова
BLIGHT — v. приносить вред, разбивать, портить удовольствие, отравлять
English-Russian-dictionary - Bed release
BLIGHT — n. болезнь растений, насекомые паразиты, пагубное влияние
English-Russian-dictionary - Bed release
BLIGHT — v. приносить вред, разбивать, портить удовольствие, отравлять
English-Russian-dictionary - Bed release
BLIGHT — n. болезнь растений, насекомые паразиты, пагубное влияние
English-Russian-dictionary - Bed release

Cambridge English vocab

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