Both Uses of
blight
in
Cujo
- It was his crooked lower-case 'a' that hung the blighter, Inspector.†
blighter = someone who extensively damages
- In a perverse sort of way he hoped that someday his piss would become so rancid with booze that it would blight the honeysuckle.†
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Definitions:
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(1)
(blight) causing or consisting of extensive damage
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Blight can more specifically refer to numerous diseases that devastate plants.