All 4 Uses of
blight
in
Gone with the Wind
- She was certain that some romantic sorrow had blighted his life and made him hard and bitter, and she felt that what he needed was the love of a good woman.†
Chpt 2.12
- This second blighting of her hopes was more than heart could bear and she cried "Oh!" in a childish whisper and sat down, tears stinging her eyes.†
Chpt 2.15 *
- Alas, to blight your hopes!†
Chpt 3.19
- Those fears had never weighed her down as this feeling of wrongness was doing—this blighting fear that was oddly like that which she knew in her old nightmare, a thick, swimming mist through which she ran with bursting heart, a lost child seeking a haven that was hidden from her.†
Chpt 5.60
Definition:
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(blight) causing or consisting of extensive damage