0 present participle of blight
1 to spoil something:
A broken leg blighted her chances of winning the championship.
Do we really wish to risk complicating and possibly blighting the final years of our lives by allowing genetic discrimination?
Speculation unrestrained and licentious threw its blighting sirocco over the green pastures of knowledge, and prejudice and mysticism involved them in their exhalations.
This disease caused chlorosis followed by blighting of the leaves.
The conclusion posits a judgement of the owners of the estates within the context of the criticisms that were reportedly blighting landlord tenant relations at the time.
We do not know what the effect of blighting a generation will be when that generation reaches the age of 30 to 40.
This represented a flagrant waste of resources and had the effect of blighting established industrial areas.
Fly-tipping remains a major scourge, blighting our landscape and people's lives.
The dead hand of security precautions is blighting a dozen prisons.