transcription, транскрипция: [ blaɪt ]
( blights, blighting, blighted)
1.
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.
N-VAR : usu with supp
2.
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.
...a strategy to redevelop blighted inner-city areas.
VERB : V n , V-ed
3.
Blight is a disease which makes plants dry up and die.
N-UNCOUNT : also N in pl