BLIGHT

noun a rashlike eruption on the human skin.

2. blight ·vi to be affected by blight; to blast; as, this vine never blights.

3. blight ·noun that which frustrates one's plans or withers one's hopes; that which impairs or destroys.

4. blight ·vt to affect with blight; to blast; to prevent the growth and fertility of.

5. blight ·noun 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.

6. blight ·vt hence: to destroy the happiness of; to ruin; to mar essentially; to frustrate; as, to blight one's prospects.

7. blight ·noun 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.

8. blight ·noun 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.