Blight
noun
A disease in plants, often causing them to die.
The farmer was devastated when his crops were struck by blight.
Often appears as...
- blight disease
- strike with blight
noun
Something that ruins or spoils.
Poverty is a blight on our city.
Often appears as...
- blight on society
- remove the blight
verb
To spoil, harm or destroy.
His addiction to alcohol blighted his career.
Often appears as...
- blighted prospects
- blight one's life
noun
A disease in plants, often causing them to die.
The farmer was devastated when his crops were struck by blight.
Often appears as...
- blight disease
- strike with blight
noun
Something that ruins or spoils.
Poverty is a blight on our city.
Often appears as...
- blight on society
- remove the blight
verb
To spoil, harm or destroy.
His addiction to alcohol blighted his career.
Often appears as...
- blighted prospects
- blight one's life
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Plant Diseases
Remember 'blight' often refers to severe plant diseases that can spread quickly and be hard to control.
The potato blight of the 1840s resulted in a massive famine.
Pro Tip 2/3Agricultural Context
'Blight' is commonly used in farming and gardening contexts when discussing plant health.
Crop rotations help prevent blight by reducing disease build-up.
Pro Tip 3/3Unexpected Disaster
A blight can be sudden and unexpected, causing surprise and despair to the grower.
An unseasonal blight wiped out the entire tomato harvest.
Pro Tip 1/3Plant Diseases
Remember 'blight' often refers to severe plant diseases that can spread quickly and be hard to control.
The potato blight of the 1840s resulted in a massive famine.
Pro Tip 2/3Agricultural Context
'Blight' is commonly used in farming and gardening contexts when discussing plant health.
Crop rotations help prevent blight by reducing disease build-up.
Pro Tip 3/3Unexpected Disaster
A blight can be sudden and unexpected, causing surprise and despair to the grower.
An unseasonal blight wiped out the entire tomato harvest.
Pro Tip 1/3Plant Diseases
Remember 'blight' often refers to severe plant diseases that can spread quickly and be hard to control.
The potato blight of the 1840s resulted in a massive famine.
Pro Tip 2/3Agricultural Context
'Blight' is commonly used in farming and gardening contexts when discussing plant health.
Crop rotations help prevent blight by reducing disease build-up.
Pro Tip 3/3Unexpected Disaster
A blight can be sudden and unexpected, causing surprise and despair to the grower.
An unseasonal blight wiped out the entire tomato harvest.
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Into the Forests PIPE...
we devoted the entire may issue to forests and the great thing about chestnut research is that it's not just about the american chestnut tree today so many of the world's trees are facing diseases like the blight and if we can figure out how to save the american chestnut which is one of the first trees
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A Skeptic’s Guide to...
there and they said well thank you very much for coming dr managing that was fascinating good bye that was the end of it yeah he says they didn't really want to hear it but rodrigo and some other scientists were getting pretty concerned that a catastrophic blight could wipe out agaves so
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Lessons on leaving the...
we're blighted by high levels of air pollution, long commutes, congested roads and big differences in life expectancy between the richest and the poorest. So what is our act doing to make a difference? Well, first of all, it requires our public institutions to work together.
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Photographing the Real...
of people outside of a house and I decided to go over there and see what was going on and realized that was actually a family who were working on their house I thought that was so so interesting that here I am looking for desolation and blight and abandonment and I find life
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Can plants talk to each...
which colonize the plants' roots and help them absorb water and nutrients. These fungal filaments form extensive networks that can connect separate plants, creating an underground super highway for chemical messages. When a tomato plant responds to blight
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Jimmy Carter: Why I...
why should I treat them as equals myself? Why should I pay them equal pay for doing the same kind of work? The other very serious blight that causes this problem is the excessive resort to violence, and that is increasing tremendously around the world.
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A Different Understanding...
And it remains a blight on our national reputation, as I fear the separation of children in the last administration will be remembered. The point is that our esteem and our power is enhanced when we rescue the desperate --
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David Deutsch: A new way...
So, in science, two false approaches blight progress. One's untestable theories. But the more important one is explanationless theories. Whenever you're told that some existing statistical trend will continue
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What gardening taught me...
through art installations throughout the world, in countries of the people that I meet. Now they are lining parks and courtyards, painted on walls and even in blighted lots off the street.
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“We Want Our America...
arrived the potato blight the neighborhood started changing life was better we lived right that life had up a shade of white when they say we want
Video examples
Into the Forests PIPE...
we devoted the entire may issue to forests and the great thing about chestnut research is that it's not just about the american chestnut tree today so many of the world's trees are facing diseases like the blight and if we can figure out how to save the american chestnut which is one of the first trees
Video examples
A Skeptic’s Guide to...
there and they said well thank you very much for coming dr managing that was fascinating good bye that was the end of it yeah he says they didn't really want to hear it but rodrigo and some other scientists were getting pretty concerned that a catastrophic blight could wipe out agaves so
Video examples
Lessons on leaving the...
we're blighted by high levels of air pollution, long commutes, congested roads and big differences in life expectancy between the richest and the poorest. So what is our act doing to make a difference? Well, first of all, it requires our public institutions to work together.
Video examples
Photographing the Real...
of people outside of a house and I decided to go over there and see what was going on and realized that was actually a family who were working on their house I thought that was so so interesting that here I am looking for desolation and blight and abandonment and I find life
Video examples
Can plants talk to each...
which colonize the plants' roots and help them absorb water and nutrients. These fungal filaments form extensive networks that can connect separate plants, creating an underground super highway for chemical messages. When a tomato plant responds to blight
Video examples
Jimmy Carter: Why I...
why should I treat them as equals myself? Why should I pay them equal pay for doing the same kind of work? The other very serious blight that causes this problem is the excessive resort to violence, and that is increasing tremendously around the world.
Video examples
A Different Understanding...
And it remains a blight on our national reputation, as I fear the separation of children in the last administration will be remembered. The point is that our esteem and our power is enhanced when we rescue the desperate --
Video examples
David Deutsch: A new way...
So, in science, two false approaches blight progress. One's untestable theories. But the more important one is explanationless theories. Whenever you're told that some existing statistical trend will continue
Video examples
What gardening taught me...
through art installations throughout the world, in countries of the people that I meet. Now they are lining parks and courtyards, painted on walls and even in blighted lots off the street.
Video examples
“We Want Our America...
arrived the potato blight the neighborhood started changing life was better we lived right that life had up a shade of white when they say we want
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Terry Teachout
American Critic
The digital apocalypse continues to blight the lives of television producers, music-industry executives and newspaper publishers, all of whom are scrambling to figure out how to reconfigure their business models in such a way as to allow them to make an honest buck.
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Michael Gove
British Politician
Children themselves know they are being cheated. Ultimately we owe it to our children. They are in school for 190 days a year. Every moment they spend learning is precious. If a year goes by and they are not being stretched and excited, that blights their life.
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Jared Polis
American Politician
Enterprise zones have succeeded in attracting needed capital to our urban poverty centers. Businesses and investors that wouldn't otherwise give these blighted areas a second glance react to the incentives and invest.
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Karen Blixen
Danish Author
I don't believe in evil, I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of horror: the plagues and the blights and the ants and the maggots.
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Donald G. Mitchell
American Writer
I love better to count time from spring to spring; it seems to me far more cheerful to reckon the year by blossoms than by blight.
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Vivian Campbell
Irish Musician
If there is any justice in the world, then eighties rock will never again serve to blight humanity as it did in that dark decade!
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Frederick William Robertson
English Clergyman
Men... are bettered and improved by trial, and refined out of broken hopes and blighted expectations.
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Dan Gilbert
American Coach
I'd probably put myself in the top 1% in knowledge of blight in the city of Detroit.
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John W. Gardner
American Educator
For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.
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Sixto Rodriguez
American Musician
I don't like litter and blight.
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Terry Teachout
American Critic
The digital apocalypse continues to blight the lives of television producers, music-industry executives and newspaper publishers, all of whom are scrambling to figure out how to reconfigure their business models in such a way as to allow them to make an honest buck.
Quote examples
Michael Gove
British Politician
Children themselves know they are being cheated. Ultimately we owe it to our children. They are in school for 190 days a year. Every moment they spend learning is precious. If a year goes by and they are not being stretched and excited, that blights their life.
Quote examples
Jared Polis
American Politician
Enterprise zones have succeeded in attracting needed capital to our urban poverty centers. Businesses and investors that wouldn't otherwise give these blighted areas a second glance react to the incentives and invest.
Quote examples
Karen Blixen
Danish Author
I don't believe in evil, I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of horror: the plagues and the blights and the ants and the maggots.
Quote examples
Donald G. Mitchell
American Writer
I love better to count time from spring to spring; it seems to me far more cheerful to reckon the year by blossoms than by blight.
Quote examples
Vivian Campbell
Irish Musician
If there is any justice in the world, then eighties rock will never again serve to blight humanity as it did in that dark decade!
Quote examples
Frederick William Robertson
English Clergyman
Men... are bettered and improved by trial, and refined out of broken hopes and blighted expectations.
Quote examples
Dan Gilbert
American Coach
I'd probably put myself in the top 1% in knowledge of blight in the city of Detroit.
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John W. Gardner
American Educator
For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.
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Sixto Rodriguez
American Musician
I don't like litter and blight.
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