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    [Noun]  | "blight" | \ ˈblīt \


    1: a disease or injury of plants marked by the formation of lesions, withering, and death of parts (such as leaves and tubers)

    2: an organism (such as an insect or a fungus) that causes blight

    3: something that frustrates plans or hopes


    Origin: 1578 ;

     Of obscure origin;

    [Noun]  | "chestnut blight" 


    1: a destructive disease of the American chestnut and American chinquapins marked by cankers of the bark and cambium and caused by a fungus (Cryphonectria parasitica synonym Endothia parasitica) introduced into the U.S. from Asia in the early 1900s; also : the fungus causing chestnut blight


    Origin: 1907 ;

    [Noun]  | "fire blight" 


    1: a destructive infectious disease especially of apples, pears, and related fruits caused by a bacterium (Erwinia amylovora)


    Origin: 1742 ;

    [Noun]  | "late blight" 


    1: a disease of solanaceous plants (such as the potato and tomato) that is caused by a fungus (Phytophthora infestans) and is characterized by decay of stems, leaves, and in the potato also of tubers


    Origin: 1893 ;

    [Noun]  | "potato blight" 


    1: any of several destructive fungus diseases of the potato


    Origin: 1845 ;

    [Verb]  | "blight" 


    1: to affect (a plant) with a disease or injury marked by the formation of lesions, withering, and death of parts (such as leaves and tubers) : to affect with blight

    2: to impair the quality or effect of

    3: to suffer from or become affected with blight


    Origin: 1695 ;

     Verbal derivative of {see: |blight:1|blight:1};

    [Noun]  | "blight" 


    1: something that spoils the appearance or completeness of a thing;


      * e.g., " ... the expanding urban sprawl is a blight on the countryside "



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    [Verb]  | "blight" 


     [ "blight" ]

    1: The feeling, when walking through a part of town, that this neighborhood has seen better days. The decline of a part of the city from thriving neighborhood to encroaching ghettodom. Usually, blight begins with the construction of a mall/huge shopping complex, which drains local businesses of needed revenue, causing them to fail, leading eventually to joblessness and poverty. The first signs of blight are poorly kept properties, damaged building facades and an increasing number of "for sale" signs.

      * e.g.,  ... That building has changed hands three times in the course of three years, now it's just sitting there, with the for sale sign, faded pale blue by the sun. I smell blight. 


     [ "blight" ]

    2: Blight can worsten or recover, but if aided by a poor economy, it can be the precursor to the descent of the neighborhood into ghetto status. Jobs stay scarce, get scarcer, the upper middle classes leave because the area is no longer "desirable," the lower middle classes leave to find jobs in other towns. As property values plunge, the neighborhood becomes populated by the very poor, who can't afford to live any where else. Since ethnic and class lines, just as concrete as one another, often run paralell, the neigborhood often changes color. As buildings fall into disrepair, sale signs give way to boarded up windows. In it's final state, the neighborhood is a slum, a ghetto, plagued with crime, disease and, above all, crushing, inescapeable poverty.


     [ "blight" ]

    3: This of course is just the worst case scenario.

     [ "blight" ]

    1: A giant lumbering behmoth. Causing destruction and hate. Eats small children and is anal. Is usually a authority figure, but that doesn't make him/her not a bastard. Hates children and love.

      * e.g.,  ... "Hey the blight kicked me out of school for a month for a year because I smiled." 

     [ "blight" ]

    1: The street name of "Milwaukee's Best Light". Traditionally, it has been known as "Beast". Blight is a blend of these terms.

      * e.g.,  ... "Yo homeslice, hit me up wit some ill Blight, dawg!" 

     [ "blight" ]

    1: An adjective to describe a black person who thinks they're white. Kind of like "wigger".

      * e.g.,  ... Jacquice is so blight. 

     [ "blight" ]

    1: a black person that hangs out with white people and has a hight and squeeky voice/laugh. This changes when in the company of black people, which never happens to this particular person.

      * e.g.,  ... hes such a freakin blight. 

     [ "blight" ]

    1: the sparking of a blunt.

      * e.g.,  ... yo, lets go blight that on the porch. 

     [ "Blight" ]

    1: In the Stop-Motion series “Moral Orel” Orel’s father Clay Puppington has a drunk rant about nature. He mentions the word blight being sudden withering death. And how Orel needs to look at the Blight side of things.

      * e.g.,  ... Clay: 

     [ "Blight" ]

    1: In the Stop-Motion series “Moral Orel” Orel’s father Clay Puppington has a drunk rant about nature. He mentions the word blight being sudden withering death. And how Orel needs to look at the Blight side of things.

      * e.g.,  ... Clay: 

     [ "Blight" ]

    1: A person who is completely bad luck. If they speak, or are in a certain place,bad things happen.

      * e.g.,  ... that David is a blight,he walked into the room and immediately my team conceded a goal 

     [ "blightful" ]

    1: (adj.) A slang word describing the state of being a blight. Often used to denote something really shitty or unfortunate. Similar to dreadful.

      * e.g.,  ... Really bad weather, fatally boring lecture, disease, Armageddon, how you feel when someone takes the last slice of pizza, etc. ex: How blightful, the world is ending. 

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