1 to spoil something: --
A broken leg blighted her chances of winning the championship.
2 something that spoils or destroys or causes damage: --
[ U ] The city stopped urban blight by rebuilding neighborhoods.
One sad thing blights that picture: the breakdown of law and order, which has been widely experienced by my constituents.
We have an animal rendering plant which blights the future and which must go.
The dead hand of security precautions is blighting a dozen prisons.
We need to counter the unthinking prejudice that blights not only people's lives, but our economy.
Crime blights the lives of far too many people and undermines the confidence of individuals and communities.
Fly-tipping remains a major scourge, blighting our landscape and people's lives.
Noise blights the quality of life of millions of people.
Crime and the fear of crime are the most serious blights on our inner cities.
