Blighted

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Blight \Blight\ (bl[imac]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Blighted}; p.
     pr. & vb. n. {Blighting}.] [Perh. contr. from AS.
     bl[imac]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.
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              [This vapor] blasts vegetables, blights corn and
              fruit, and is sometimes injurious even to man.
                                                    --Woodward.
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     2. Hence: To destroy the happiness of; to ruin; to mar
        essentially; to frustrate; as, to blight one's prospects.
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              Seared in heart and lone and blighted. --Byron.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  blighted
       adj : affected by blight--anything that mars or events growth or
             prosperity; "a blighted rose"; "blighted urtan
             districts" [syn: {spoilt}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  83 Moby Thesaurus words for "blighted":
     absolute, ausgespielt, baffled, balked, bankrupt, betrayed, bilked,
     blasted, blessed, blown, botched, broken, chapfallen, confounded,
     crestfallen, crossed, crushed, cursed, cussed, damnable, dashed,
     defeated, desolated, despoiled, destroyed, devastated,
     disappointed, dished, disillusioned, dissatisfied, done for,
     done in, down-and-out, downright, execrable, fallen, finished,
     flyblown, foiled, frowsty, frowsy, frowzy, frustrated, fusty,
     gone to pot, gross, ill done-by, ill-served, in ruins, infernal,
     irremediable, kaput, let down, maggoty, marred, mildewed,
     moldering, moldy, moth-eaten, musty, out of countenance,
     out-and-out, overthrown, rank, ravaged, regretful, ruined, ruinous,
     smutted, smutty, sorely disappointed, soured, spoiled, spoilt,
     straight-out, thwarted, undone, unmitigated, wasted, weevily,
     worm-eaten, wormy, wrecked