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The once thriving downtown has become an example of urban blight with abandoned buildings and too much crime.blight = something that is severely damaged
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Too much rain may blight the garden with mold
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She says 'twould break your heart to think of what the English did to us, that if they didn't put the blight on the potato they didn't do much to take it off. (source)blight = a plant disease causing extensive damage
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I am going over to Senator Whitworth's house myself and telling him you, Skeeter Phelan, will be a blight on his campaign in Washington. (source)blight = something that causes extensive damage
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The Dead Period, when all my trees looked like they had been through a forest fire or a blight. (source)blight = serious disease (causing extensive damage)
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Well, said Samuel, silence struck the gathering like a blight. (source)blight = something that causes extensive damage
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A blight seemed to have descended on her. (source)blight = something bad
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My mother's life would not have been blighted.† (source)blighted = extensively damaged
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The spent oxygen bottles blighting the South Col have been accumulating since the 1950s, but thanks to an ongoing litter-removal Program instigated in 1994 by Scott Fischer's Sagar matha Environmental Expedition, there are fewer of them up there now than there used to be.† (source)blighting = extensively damaging
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Poor little blighter! (source)blighter = someone who is damaged
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Mars has no insects, parasites, or blights to deal with, and the Hab maintains perfect growing temperature and moisture at all times.† (source)
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Tendrils unblighted!† (source)unblighted = not extensively damagedstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unblighted means not and reverses the meaning of blighted. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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As I sat nursing these reflections, the casement behind me was banged on to the floor by a blow from the latter individual, and his black countenance looked blightingly through.† (source)
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What a terrible blight that would be on the heart of a free, intelligent father! (source)blight = cause of extensive damage
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But divinity should not be blighted by death.† (source)blighted = extensively damaged
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This I had believed with all my being, but now, though still inwardly affirming that belief, I felt a blighting hurt which prevented me from trying further to defend myself.† (source)blighting = extensively damaging
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