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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Blight \Blight\ (bl[imac]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Blighted}; p. pr & vb n. {Blighting}.] [Perh. contr. from AS bl[=i]cettan to glitter, fr the same root as E. bleak. The meaning ``to blight'' comes in that case from to glitter, hence to be white or pale, grow pale, make pale, bleach. Cf {Bleach}, {Bleak}.] 1. To affect with blight; to blast; to prevent the growth and fertility of [This vapor] blasts vegetables, blights corn and fruit, and is sometimes injurious even to man. --Woodward. 2. Hence: To destroy the happiness of to ruin; to mar essentially; to frustrate; as to blight one's prospects. Seared in heart and lone and blighted. --Byron. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Blighting \Blight"ing\, a. Causing blight.
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