blight
/blaɪt/
noun
- A disease that damages or kills plants, often causing spots or wilting.
- Farmers worry about potato blight during wet summers.
- A blight spread through the orchard, turning the leaves brown and dry.
- The tomato plants in the garden were ruined by a fungal blight.
- Something that damages, spoils, or ruins something else.
- Corruption is a blight on the country's development.
- The abandoned factory was a blight on the neighborhood.
- The new highway project became a blight on the peaceful countryside.
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