blight

Definitions of blight in various dictionaries:

noun - a state or condition being blighted

noun - any plant disease resulting in withering without rotting

verb - cause to suffer a blight

Any of numerous plant diseases resulting in sudden conspicuous wilting and dying of affected parts, especially young, growing tissues.

The condition or causative agent, such as a bacterium, fungus, or virus, that results in blight.

An extremely adverse environmental condition, such as air pollution.

Something that impairs growth, withers hopes and ambitions, or impedes progress and prosperity.

To cause (a plant, for example) to undergo blight.

To suffer blight.

verb - to cause decay

BLIGHT - Blight refers to a specific sign affecting plants in response to infection by a pathogenic organism....