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Definitions: Blight |
BlightNoun1. A state or condition being blighted. 2. Any plant disease resulting in withering without rotting. Verb1. Cause to suffer a blight; "Too much rain may blight the garden with mold.". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "blight" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
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Biology & Biotechnology | The common infectious keratitis of cattle caused by Heamophilus(Moraxella)bovis. It occurs as outbreaks, characterized by ocular discharge, blepharospasm and pain ; an eye disease of sheep and goats involving inflammation of the conjunctiva, which progresses to corneal ulcers and blindness. The condition occurs worldwide and is contagious, being associated with a number microorganisms, although Chlamydia psittaci ovis and Mycoplasma conjunctivae are the most commonly isolated pathogens. Source: European Union. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | Any disease, or(occasionally)a pest, associated with an often rapid wilting and dieback of foliage, flowers and even shoots. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Blight originates from moist or foggy weather and from hoar-frost, the effects of which, when expelled by a hot sun, are first discernible on the straw, and afterwards on the ear, in a greater or less degree, according to local circumstances. Let a field be examined in a day or two after such weather, and a careful observer will soon be satisfied that the fibres and leaves of plants are contracted and enfeebled, in consequence of what may be called a stoppage of perspiration. This disorder may take place either earlier or later, but is most fatal when it appears at the time the grain is forming in the ear. It may appear at an earlier stage; and though the productive powers of the plant will thereby be lessened, yet, if circumstances are afterwards favorable, the quality of the grain produced may not be much impaired; or it may appear after the grain is fully formed, and then very little damage will be sustained, except by the straw.
See also wheat
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Blight."
Synonym: BlightSynonym: plague (v). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: mildewing (biology & biotechnology, medicine). |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Adversity | Trouble, hardship, curse, blight, blast, load, pressure. |
Deterioration | Decay, dilapidation, ravages of time, wear and tear; corrosion, erosion; moldiness, rottenness; moth and rust, dry rot, blight, marasmus, atrophy, collapse; disorganization; delabrement; (destruction).; aphid, Aphis, plant louse, puceron; vinefretter, vinegrub. |
Blight, rot; corrode, erode; wear away, wear out; gnaw, gnaw at the root of; sap, mine, undermine, shake, sap the foundations of, break up; disorganize, dismantle, dismast; destroy. | |
Disappointment | Disappoint; frustrate, discomfit, crush, defeat (failure); crush one's hope, dash one's hope, balk one's hope, disappoint one's hope, blight one's hope, falsify one's hope, defeat one's hope, discourage; balk, jilt, bilk; play one false, play a trick; dash the cup from the lips, tantalize; dumfound, dumbfound, dumbfounder, dumfounder (astonish). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Blight |
| English words defined with "blight": alder blight, American blight, Apple blight ♦ bean blight, beet blight, blasting, blight canker, Blighting, Blightingly, blister blight ♦ cane blight, celery blight, chestnut blight, coffee blight, collar blight ♦ epiphytotic ♦ fire blight ♦ halo blight, halo spot, head blight ♦ late blight, leaf blight ♦ Moth blight ♦ needle blight ♦ oak blight ♦ peach blight, Pear blight, Phytophthora infestans, plague, potato blight, potato disease, potato mildew, potato mold, potato murrain ♦ rim blight, ruinous ♦ Sneap, spinach blight, spur blight, stem blight, stripe blight ♦ thread blight, tomato blight, twig blight ♦ walnut blight, Woolly louse. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "blight": Erwinia amylovora ♦ Frankum's Night ♦ Hair-dresser ♦ Orchard ♦ parch blight, plume blight ♦ supervisor, grove, supervisor, orchard, SUPERVISOR, TREE-FRUIT-AND-NUT FARMING. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "blight": Rubigo ♦ Uredo. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Fight Against Blight (1955) Dog Blight (1936) | |
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 | To ensure continuing worldwide availability of this valuable food staple, potato plant breeders must unite desirable processing and fresh-market characteristics with late blight resistance. P.Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer.. |  | ARS researchers at Kearneysville, West Virginia, have released peacy varieties that reliably produce sunny, juicy peaches in northerly climes. And thanks to years of pest control studies, the fire blight and pear psylla problems that long ago wiped out the U.S. East Coast pear industry have yielded to a variety of new controls. P.Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer.. |
 | The Knight of the Cumberland reined in before the blight.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | House near South River showing "blight." New Jersey.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | "Blight house," Hamilton County, Ohio.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | House in Cincinnati showing its conversion into businnesses and blight.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | 1316 West Walnut Street blight. Milwaukee, Wisconsin.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Presque Isle, Maine. State agricultural experimental farm. Lecture on potato blight.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | "We hope the thought of one man's misery will not completely blight your Christmas. The Websters".Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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J. M. Synge | Lord, confound this surly sister, blight her brow with blotch and blister, cramp her larynx, lung and liver, in her guts a galling give her. |
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Economic History | Samoa | Prior to the taro leaf blight, Samoa's exports consisted of taro ($3.7 million), coconut cream ($1.8 million), and "other" ($1.3 million). (references) |
Samoa | Further economic problems occurred in 1994 with an outbreak of taro leaf blight and the near collapse of the national airline Polynesian Airlines. (references) | |
Samoa | Taro, a root crop, traditionally was Samoa's largest export, generating more than half of all export revenue in 1993. But a fungal blight decimated the plants, and in each year since 1994 taro exports have accounted for less than 1% of export revenue. (references) | |
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| "Blight" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 97.28% of the time. "Blight" is used about 147 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 97.28% | 143 | 26,451 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.04% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 0.68% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 147 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "blight" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Blight | Last name | 200 | 34,211 |
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Expressions using "blight": alder blight ♦ american blight ♦ Apple blight ♦ bean blight ♦ beet blight ♦ blight canker ♦ blister blight ♦ cane blight ♦ cedar leaf blight ♦ celery blight ♦ chestnut blight ♦ coffee blight ♦ collar blight ♦ fire blight ♦ halo blight ♦ head blight ♦ late blight ♦ leaf blight ♦ moth blight ♦ needle blight ♦ oak blight ♦ parch blight ♦ peach blight ♦ pear blight ♦ potato blight ♦ rim blight ♦ spinach blight ♦ spur blight ♦ stem blight ♦ stripe blight ♦ suffering from blight ♦ thread blight ♦ tomato blight ♦ twig blight ♦ walnut blight. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
blight tomato | 67 | blight ovum | 4 |
fire blight | 64 | blight sycamore | 4 |
blight | 46 | blight fire streptomycin | 3 |
blight tomatoe | 11 | blight luca | 3 |
potato blight | 10 | blight oak | 3 |
urban blight | 10 | apple blight tree | 3 |
blight pythium | 10 | blight busters | 3 |
blight rose | 10 | blight southern | 3 |
late blight | 9 | apple blight fire | 3 |
blight tree | 8 | blight lawn pythium | 3 |
blight botrytis | 8 | blight wheat | 3 |
blight early tomato | 7 | blight oak tree | 3 |
blight fusarium | 7 | blight plant tomato | 2 |
blight leaf | 6 | apple blight | 2 |
early blight | 6 | blight twig | 2 |
blight dogwood | 6 | blight busters city motor | 2 |
blight chestnut | 5 | blight fire treatment | 2 |
bacterial blight | 5 | blight sycamore tree | 2 |
blight fire pear | 4 | blight irish potato | 2 |
blight cedar | 4 | blight plant | 2 |
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Albanian | vrug (smut), urth (heartburn), plagë (burn, gash, hurt, lesion, slash, sore, sword cut, wound), mallkim (anathema, ban, curse, cuss, damn, damnation, imprecation, perdition, swearing, tarnation, vituperation), liman (basin, bay, cove, fleet, Harbor, harbour, haven, nook, port), dëmtoj (affect, batter, blast, break, concuss, cripple, damage, damnify, deface, disorder, do harm, harm, hurt, impair, injure, kill, make mischief, mess, nip, prejudice, scathe, spoil, vitiate, wrench). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | فساد (corruption, decay, decomposition, degeneration, depravation, depravity, deterioration, disintegration, dry rot, immorality, invalidity, perversion, perversity, putrefaction, putridity, rot, rottenness), هدم (demolish, demolition, destroy, destruction, do away with, level, pluck, pull down, sap, smash, take apart, tear, tear down, total), تلف (bungle, burn, consume, corrode, damage, destroy, deteriorate, deterioration, go bad, go off, go to the dogs, harm, hash, impair, mangle, molder, moulder, ravage, ruin, scourge, spoil, spoilage, spoiling, take out, total, waste away), تصيبه آفة, خرب (desolate, destroy, devastate, dilapidate, dilapidated, fallen, go to pot, gum, harm, harry, havoc, overthrow, play havoc with, pull down, ravage, ruin, ruined, ruinous, sabotage, spoil, waste, wreck), آفة زراعية. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | унилост (heaviness), разбивам (agitate, beat, beat up, blank, blast, break, break down, break in pieces, break to pieces, burst open, dash, deflate, disrupt, hack, kick in, mill, overwhelm, pry open, scatter, shatter, smash, smash in, smash up, split off, stamp, whip, whip up, wreck), тежка атмосфера, вид листна въшка, отравям (embitter, empoison, envenom, intoxicate, poison, unearth), лошо влияние, болест по растенията, попарвам (damp, frost, infuse, kill, nip, perish, scald, steam, touch, wither), изгарям (blow, blow out, burn, burn away, burn out, burn up, consume, cremate, fuse, go phut, incinerate, parch, scorch). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 凋枯病. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | pohroma (calamity, catastrophe, disaster, plague), plíseò (mildew, mould, rot, rust), napadnout (attack, contest, impugn, occur, pelt), mařit (Mar), kletba (bane, curse, malison, oath), kazit (butcher, corrupt, debauch, impair, Mar), hatit. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | visnen (dying, perishing, wilting), tørforrådnelse hos kartofler (dry rot), kartoffelskimmel, infektiøs keratoconjunctivitis hos kvæg (heather blindness, infectious bovine keratoconjunctivitis, New Forest disease, ovine keratoconjunctivitis, pink eye), forfald (adversity, decadence, decay, degeneration, maturity, obsolescence), øjenbetændelse hos kvæg (heather blindness, infectious bovine keratoconjunctivitis, New Forest disease, ovine keratoconjunctivitis, pink eye). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | besmettelijke keratoconjunctivitis (heather blindness, infectious bovine keratoconjunctivitis, New Forest disease, ovine keratoconjunctivitis, pink eye), valse meeldauw (downy mildew, downy mildew of beet, downy mildew of cabbage, downy mildew of grapevine, downy mildew of sugar beet, grape downy mildew, mildew, peronospora), peronospora (downy mildew, mildew, peronospora). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | terpomŝimo (potato blight, potato disease, potato rot). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | پژمردن , زنگار (Legging, Rust), افت (Deuce, Downfall, Pest, Pestilence, Plague, Slump), بادزدگی یازنگ زدگی . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | rappio (decay, decline, obsolescence, ruin), rappeutuminen (decay, degeneration, degradation, dystrophy, obsolescence, tiredness), karistetauti, kariste, härmä (downy mildew, hoar frost, hoarfrost, mildew, peronospora, rime, white frost). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | mildiou (blue mould). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | vereiteln (foil, frustrate, hamstring, hamstringed, hamstrung, mock, prevent, thwart, thwarted, to blight, to defeat, to foil, to thwart, upset). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κερατοεπιπεφυκίτιδα των βοοειδών (heather blindness, infectious bovine keratoconjunctivitis, New Forest disease, ovine keratoconjunctivitis, pink eye), καπνιά (lampblack, smudge, smut, soot), καταστρέφω (annihilate, blast, blemish, decimate, deface, deflower, destroy, devastate, disrupt, do for, impair, kill, ravage, ruin, shake down, spoil, undo, wreck), στάχτη (ash, cinder, cinders, oidium powdery mildew ( uncinula necator, oidium Tuckeri )), ξεραίνω (desiccate, dry, parch), μικρό νησί, μαρασμός,ερυσίβη,στάχτη,καπνιά, μαραίνω (fade, macerate, wilt, wither, wizen), περονόσπορος (blue mould, downy mildew, mildew, peronospora), υποβάθμιση (decay, degradation, deskilling of jobs, downgrading, downgrading of jobs, encroachment, impairment, obsolescence), ερυσίβη (ergot, mildew, smut), ασθένεια των φυτών. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | לש"וף (blast, parch), לקלקל (break down, bungle, foul up, louse, muff, spoil, vitiate), לפ'וע (affect, come across, harm, hurt, impinge, injure, offend, prejudice, slight, strike, wound), ל"רוס (bane, demolish, destroy, havoc, pull down, ravage, ruin, shatter, tear down, wreck), ש"פון (blast, nip, smut), כמשון (wilt disease). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | penész (mildew, mold, mould, must). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | penyakit tanaman, merusak (botch, corrode, deflower, deprave, detrimental, dilapidate, impair, wreck). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | ruggine (russet, rust, rust fungus, rusts), rovinare (be ruined, blast, break, collapse, crash, damn, demolish, destroy, devastate, dilapidate, disfigure, do in, kill, nip, pull down, put pay, ruin, scuttle, shatter, spoil, undo, waste, wreck), occhio rosa (heather blindness, infectious bovine keratoconjunctivitis, New Forest disease, ovine keratoconjunctivitis, pink eye), moria (disease), golpe, deludere (deceive, delude, disappoint, frustrate), cheratocongiuntivite ovina (heather blindness, infectious bovine keratoconjunctivitis, New Forest disease, ovine keratoconjunctivitis, pink eye), cheratocongiuntivite infettiva bovina (heather blindness, infectious bovine keratoconjunctivitis, New Forest disease, ovine keratoconjunctivitis, pink eye), apoplessia (apoplectic, apoplectic fit, apoplexy, fit, seizure, stroke, stroke of apoplexy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 粛殺 (withering). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | しゅくさつ (pocket edition, small-type edition, withering). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 병해. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | lommaney (blighting, scorch, scorching), fowaney (blast, blast of wind, scorch, sear), fowanaghey (blighting, scorch), cur y cron doo er, cur smoalley er, cur lesh y gorley praase. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ightblay secar (blast, desiccate, drainage, dry, exsiccate, forked, kirghiz, peter out, rub down, scorch, sear, shrivel, Ted, wipe, wither), pulgão (aphid, aphis, green, plant, plant louse), peronospora (downy mildew, mildew, peronospora), morte rápida, mirrar (wither), mangra (mildew, rust, smut), manchar (befoul, besmirch, blemish, blotch, blur, dirty, discoloration, discoloured, fleck, foul, Fox, maculate, pollute, smirch, smoke, smudge, soil, speckle, spot, stain, sully, taint), míldio (downy mildew, mildew, mosaic form of downy mildew, peronospora), mal (badly, bale, barely, evil, hardly, harm, hurt, ill, ill treat, just, little, malady, scarcely, sickness, teen, teener, wrong, wrongdoing), influência perniciosa (canker), influência maligna, ferrugem (ergot, rouge, rust, rust fungus, rusts, sooty mold, sooty mould, unglazed scale), degradação (abasement, abjection, attack, attaint, corrosion, decay, decomposition, degradation, degrade, denudation, destruction, deterioration, impairment, obsolescence, solodisation, solodization, solotization, thin-down), arruinar (break, crack, decay, demolish, depredate, destroy, devastate, dilapidate, fling, injure, Mar, mine, puncture, ravage, reave, reive, ruin, spoil, undo, unmake, waste). (various references) vãtãma (damage, hurt, injure, scathe, touch, wound, wrong), tãciune (brand, canker, cinder, coal, embers, smut), strica (bastardize, batter, bedevil, blast, break, bungle, contaminate, corrupt, crack, cripple, damage, debauch, decompose, deface, deflower, demolish, deprave, derange, destroy, disarrange, disconcert, disfigure, disorganize, disturb, flaw, frustrate, hackle, harm, hurt, impair, injure, Mar, muck, muddle, pervert, pip, quash, rot, sophisticate, spoil, taint, vitiate, wreck), ruina (bankrupt, blast, crock, destroy, dilapidate, impair, Mar, overturn, ravage, ruin, sink, undo), pacoste (calamity, curse, cuss, hanger-on, nuisance, offence, pain, pest, pestilence, plague), nimici (annihilate, bear, crush, cut, dash, destroy, do smb. in, exterminate, extinguish, kill, overwhelm, raze, scathe, smash, undo, unmake, wipe out, wither), nãpastã (calamity, calumny, curse, disaster, injustice, offence, pest, plague, slander, wrong), mãlurã (brand, smut), insectã dãunãtoare plantelor, distruge (abolish, annihilate, blast, confound, crash, crock, cut, cut to pieces, cut up, dash, decay, defeat, demolish, destroy, devastate, dilapidate, disrupt, eat into, eat through, eliminate, exterminate, extirpate, finish, kill, lay waste, make havoc of, Mar, obliterate, overturn, overwhelm, perish, play the deuce with, play the devil with, quash, ravage, raze, reduce, ruin, scathe, scatter, scotch, shatter, shipwreck, sink, spoil, squelch, strafe, subvert, tear, undo, unmake, wreck), dãrâma (annihilate, batter, break down, crack, crumble, crush, demolish, destroy, frustrate, pull down, raze, ruin, shatter, throw down, wreck). (various references) болезнь растений, портить удовольствие. (various references) biljna vaš (plant louse), upropastiti (destroy, havoc, make a hash of cutting, muck up, muff, murder, ruin, screw up, spoil, vitiate, wrack), uništenje (annihilation, breaking up, extirpation, obliteration, rack, undoing, wreckage), razoriti (destroy), medljika (honeydew). (various references) roya (brand, rust, rust fungus, take-all), queratoconjuntivitis bovina (heather blindness, infectious bovine keratoconjunctivitis, New Forest disease, ovine keratoconjunctivitis, pink eye), producir la roya, plaga (bane, pest, plague), pasmar (amaze, astonish, astound, dumbfound, faint, flabbergast, freeze, horrify, knock back, knock out, stun, stupefy, tarnish), marchitez (wilting, withering), marchitar (blast, fade, sear, to die back, to wither, wilt, wither), frustrar (baffle, balk, baulk, defeat, foil, frustrate, mock, scotch, scupper, thwart, to foil), arruinar (bane, bankrupt, beggar, blast, break, dilapidate, leak, mess up, murder, ruin, scuttle, tear, throw over, wash out, wreck), alheñar (dye with henna), alheña (henna, mildew, privet). (various references) rost (canker, grate, mildew, rouge, rust, rust fungus, smut, unglazed scale), mjöldagg (mildew, oidium, oidium powdery mildew ( uncinula necator, oidium Tuckeri )), fördärv (bane, corruption, destruction, fate, perdition, perversity, ruin, taint, undoing). (various references) ทำลาย (annihilate, assassinate, break, eat, extinguish, kick in, murder), การเสื่อมสลาย, ความเสียหาย (cost, dilapidation, loss). (various references) boşa çıkarmak (baffle, cancel, defeat, disappoint, fail, frustrate, invalidate, prick the bubble, puncture, shoot down), yıkım (bad, bane, cropper, damnation, death, debacle, demolition, disaster, havoc, ravage, ruin, undoing, wrecking), suya düşürmek (wreck), mantar (athlete's foot, brand, Cork, Corky, fungal, fungoid, fungous, fungus, mushroom, myco-), keşmekeş (chaos, conflict, confusion, disorder, rat race, snarl, snarl up), karmaşa (complexity, complication, higgledy-piggledy, hubbub, involution, moil, rag bag), küf (mildew, Mold, moldiness, mould, mouldiness), kötü izlenim bırakmak (be in bad odor, be in bad odor with smb., be in bad odour, be in bad odour with smb., leave a bad taste in one's mouth), kırmak (bear down, breach, break, break down, bust, chill, chop, crack, cut, dampen, discount, fracture, freeze, give offence, give offense, hurt, lacerate, offend, outrage, pique, put off, put smb.'s nose out of joint, quench, reduce, refract, Rive, ruffle smb.'s feelings, rupture, set up, shatter, skip, snap, snap off, split, stave in, sting, touch, vanquish), felâket (affliction, bane, blow, calamity, calvary, casualty, cataclysm, catastrophe, debacle, disaster, distress, fatality, fate, harm, hell, hell of, helluva, misfortune, mishap, plague, scathe, scourge, tragedy, undoing), afet (a bewitching beauty, bane, beauty, calamity, cataclysm, catastrophe, disaster, kayo, knockout, stunner). (various references) їржа, скручування (cabling, convolution, torsion, warping, wring), руйнувати (attack, baffle, cast down, confound, demolish, destroy, devour, dilapidate, disappoint, explode, havoc, ruin, shake down, wrack, wreck), в'янення (fading, flagging), завдавати шкоди (damnify, disadvantage, do harm), занепад (anticlimax, chute, decadence, decadency, decay, declension, declination, decline, degeneracy, degeneration, depression, down grade, nadir, sunset, waste, wasting), псувати (alloy, bedevil, blemish, blur, break, corrupt, cripple, debase, deface, deform, degrade, deprave, destroy, deteriorate, discount, disfigure, do for, envenom, erode, flaw, make miserable, mess, mismanage, muddle, muff, perish, prejudice, punish, queer, spoil, vitiate, waste). (various references) tai hoạ (affliction, calamity, casualty, curse, disaster). (various references) mallu (blast, rot), malltod (blast, rot), mall, deifio (blast, scorch, singe). 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| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Peronospora, robigine, robiginem, robigo, rubigo, uredine, uredinis. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "blight": blighted, blighter, blighters, blighties, blighting, blights, blighty. (additional references) | |
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"Blight" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ballagh, bilgh, blagget, Bleeaggh, Bleugh, blig, bligh, blightt, blih, blilght, blit, Blitt, bulagat. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "blight" (pronounced blī"t) |
| 3 | -l ī" t | alight, delight, flight, light, lite, plight, polite, sleight, slight. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-g-h-i-l-t" | |
-1 letter: bight, light. | |
-2 letters: gilt, glib, hilt. | |
-3 letters: big, bit, ghi, gib, git, hit, lib, lit, til. | |
-4 letters: bi, hi, it, li, ti. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-g-h-i-l-t" | |
+1 letter: blights, blighty. | |
+2 letters: blighted, blighter, brightly. | |
+3 letters: backlight, blighters, blighties, blighting, blotching, bullfight, eightball, lightbulb, nightclub. | |
+4 letters: backlights, beclothing, blathering, blethering, blithering, bullfights, eightballs, lightbulbs, nightclubs, thimblerig. | |
+5 letters: alphabeting, backlighted, benightedly, bullfighter, haptoglobin, mothballing, outblushing, stablishing, thimblerigs. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 6C 69 67 68 74 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... .-.. .. --. .... - |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01101100 01101001 01100111 01101000 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B l i g h t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 006C 0069 0067 0068 0074 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)367875737486 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Quotations: Familiar | 9. Quotations: Non-fiction 10. Usage Frequency 11. Names: Frequency 12. Expressions | 13. Expressions: Internet 14. Translations: Modern 15. Translations: Ancient 16. Derivations | 17. Rhymes 18. Anagrams 19. Orthography 20. Bibliography |
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