blighted

[ blahy-tid ]

/ ˈblaɪ tɪd /

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adjective

Plant Pathology. affected with blight, a disease or condition characterized by the rapid and extensive discoloration, wilting, and death of plant tissues: Small, black fungal fruiting bodies form on the blighted twigs and produce infective spores.

dilapidated or deteriorated: They saw the potential for the blighted building to provide affordable housing once renovated, and took on the project.

(of a region, city, area, etc.) not flourishing; stagnant, run-down, socially depressed, etc.: A new fitness center and natural foods market are replacing a blighted corner with jobs, economic activity, and healthier lifestyles.

ruined or marred: The people who forget their past are condemned to a blighted future.

verb

the simple past tense and past participle of blight.

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Origin of blighted

blight + -ed² for defs. 1, 2, 4; blight + -ed³ for def. 3; blight + -ed¹ for def. 5

OTHER WORDS FROM blighted

un·blight·ed, adjectiveun·blight·ed·ly, adverbun·blight·ed·ness, noun

Words nearby blighted

blewit, blewits, Blida, Bligh, blight, blighted, blighter, blighty, bliksem, blimey, blimp

How to use blighted in a sentence

The ruling will bring back attention to a scandal that blighted the final years of the reign of 76 year-old King Juan Carlos.
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The Shelley circle was shockingly blighted by death in the period following the Geneva gathering.
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His wanderings through the blighted landscape are accompanied by thoughts of resurrection and renewal.
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Could they have done more for their blighted communities than simply build personal fiefdoms and live large?
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The result is that the district combines the blighted row houses of The Wire and horse country.
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How many blighted buds there are for every full-blown flower or ripened fruit!
The Catacombs of Rome|William Henry Withrow
The danger with long engagements is that they often do not end in matrimony, and in such a case a young girl's future is blighted.
Friend Mac Donald|Max O'Rell
A vague hope brought me here, and I confess that, when I saw this hope blighted, my first thought was of revenge.
The Seven Cardinal Sins: Envy and Indolence|Eugne Sue
When the crop sprang up which he had himself helped to sow, he blighted it.
The Two Great Republics: Rome and the United States|James Hamilton Lewis
Cloud, that hast revealed to us this young creature and her blighted hopes, close up again.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845|Various