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blighted
[blahy-tid]
adjective
Plant Pathology.affected with blight, a disease or condition characterized by the rapid and extensive discoloration, wilting, and death of plant tissues.
Small, black fungal fruiting bodies form on the blighted twigs and produce infective spores.
dilapidated or deteriorated.
They saw the potential for the blighted building to provide affordable housing once renovated, and took on the project.
(of a region, city, area, etc.) not flourishing; stagnant, run-down, socially depressed, etc..
A new fitness center and natural foods market are replacing a blighted corner with jobs, economic activity, and healthier lifestyles.
ruined or marred.
The people who forget their past are condemned to a blighted future.
verb
the simple past tense and past participle of blight.
Other Word Forms
- unblighted adjective
- unblightedly adverb
- unblightedness noun
Word History and Origins
Example Sentences
They have for months complained that their lives have been blighted by the noise of the loudspeakers coming from both the South and North, sometimes in the middle of the night.
The mayor of the region's biggest city, Cali, said the city had returned to 1989, when it was blighted by the drugs trade and cartel violence.
Ali: There is always hope, Tracy, even in the blighted, rotting, fungus-filled world of “The Last of Us.”
The first use of "it" is Mount's way of referring to the injuries that have blighted his time at Manchester United.
US shoppers could very much be the frontline casualties in this trade war, blighted by higher prices and less choice, regardless of the president's rhetoric.
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