blight: Meaning and Definition of

blight

1. the rapid and extensive discoloration, wilting, and death of plant tissues.
2. a disease so characterized.
2. any cause of impairment, destruction, ruin, or frustration: Extravagance was the blight of the family.
3. the state or result of being blighted or deteriorated; dilapidation; decay: urban blight.

1. to cause to wither or decay; blast: Frost blighted the crops.
2. to destroy; ruin; frustrate: Illness blighted his hopes.

1. to suffer blight.