0 past simple and past participle of blight
1 to spoil something:
A broken leg blighted her chances of winning the championship.
They highlight the complexity of the lives either blighted by acute poverty or lived from the perspective of the possibility of poverty.
Not having one's emotional development blighted by fear and anxiety.
The situation deteriorated further between the wars as depression, combined with drought, blighted the countryside.
The hypothesis that neural tube malformations are largely due to the consumption of blighted potatoes has not been substantiated.
The landscape and technical points of view are also analysed: blighted areas are depicted (with some photographs), experimental building sites and building industrialisation processes are thoroughly investigated.
Many areas of our environment are blighted with dereliction—in towns and cities as well as old mining areas.
It became clear in the early 1980s that large tracts of our cities were blighted by industrial dereliction and contaminated land.
The lives of many of my constituents are being blighted by antisocial behaviour—aggressive begging, drunk and disorderly conduct and noisy neighbours—and also by criminal behaviour.
