1. blight - Noun
2. blight - Verb
To affect with blight; to blast; to prevent the growth and fertility of.
Hence: To destroy the happiness of; to ruin; to mar essentially; to frustrate; as, to blight one's prospects.
To be affected by blight; to blast; as, this vine never blights.
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.
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.
That which frustrates one's plans or withers one's hopes; that which impairs or destroys.
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.
A rashlike eruption on the human skin.
Source: Webster's dictionarySome say that happiness is not good for mortals, they ought to be answered that sorrow is not fit for immortals is utterly useless to any one a blight never does good to a tree, if a blight kill not a tree but it still bear fruit, let none say that the fruit was in consequence of the blight. William Blake
Ere sin could blight or sorrow fade, Death came with friendly care; The opening bud to heaven conveyed, And bade it blossom there. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
If there is any justice in the world, then eighties rock will never again serve to blight humanity as it did in that dark decade! Vivian Campbell
Our blight is ideologies - they are the long-expected Antichrist! Carl Jung
Some birds are not meant to be caged there feathers are to blight and there meant to fly. African Proverb
The blight ness of the moon can only be experienced in total darkness. African Proverb