Usually means: Disease causing plant decay, deterioration.
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  1. blight: Merriam-Webster
  2. blight, blight: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. blight: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. blight: Collins English Dictionary
  5. blight: Vocabulary.com
  6. Blight, blight: Wordnik
  7. blight: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. blight: Wiktionary
  9. blight: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. blight: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. blight: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. blight: Dictionary.com
  13. blight: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. blight: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Blight (disambiguation), Blight (play), Blight: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Blight: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. blight: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. blight: Rhymezone
  19. blight: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. blight: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. blight: FreeDictionary.org
  22. blight: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. blight: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. blight: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. blight: Legal dictionary

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  1. blight: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. blight: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  3. blight: Medical dictionary

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  1. blight: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

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  1. blight: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See blighted as well.)

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noun:  (phytopathology)
noun:  A diseased condition suffered by a plant; specifically, a complete and rapid chlorosis, browning, then death of plant tissues such as floral organs, leaves, branches, or twigs, especially one caused by a fungus; a mildew, a rust, a smut.
noun:  The cause of such a condition, often unseen but believed to be airborne; specifically, a bacterium, a virus, or (especially) a fungus; also, an aphid which attacks fruit trees.
noun:  (by extension)
noun:  A state of cloudy, humid weather.
noun:  (pathology, dated) A diseased condition of the face or skin; specifically, bleeding under the conjunctiva of the eye, a form of skin rash, or a palsy of the face due to cold.
noun:  (figurative)
noun:  Something that impedes development or growth, or spoils any other aspect of life.
noun:  (specifically) A rundown and unsightly condition of an urban area; also, such an area.
verb:  (transitive)
verb:  (phytopathology) To affect the fertility or growth of (a plant) with a blight (noun sense 1.1), especially one caused by a fungus; to blast, to mildew, to smut.
verb:  (by extension, pathology, dated) To affect (a body part) with a disease.
verb:  (figurative) To impede the development or growth of (an aspect of life); to damage, to ruin, to spoil.
verb:  (intransitive) Of a plant: to suffer blight (noun sense 1.1).

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