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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
  • 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)
  • 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
  • My mother's life would not have been blighted.†  (source)
    blighted = extensively damaged
  • 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
  • Poor little blighter!  (source)
    blighter = someone who is damaged
  • Mars has no insects, parasites, or blights to deal with, and the Hab maintains perfect growing temperature and moisture at all times.†  (source)
  • Tendrils unblighted!†  (source)
    unblighted = not extensively damaged
    standard 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.
  • 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)
  • What a terrible blight that would be on the heart of a free, intelligent father!  (source)
    blight = cause of extensive damage
  • But divinity should not be blighted by death.†  (source)
    blighted = extensively damaged
  • 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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