n. 1 affliction, disease, plague, infestation, pestilence, scourge The crops were visited with a blight that lasted seven years 2 misfortune, curse, trouble, woe, calamity Genius may suffer an untimely blight
v. 3 afflict, infest, plague, scourge; wither, mar, taint, blast Central Africa has been blighted by famine after famine