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blighted

[ blahy-tid ]

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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.

The ruling will bring back attention to a scandal that blighted the final years of the reign of 76 year-old King Juan Carlos.

The Shelley circle was shockingly blighted by death in the period following the Geneva gathering.

His wanderings through the blighted landscape are accompanied by thoughts of resurrection and renewal.

Could they have done more for their blighted communities than simply build personal fiefdoms and live large?

The result is that the district combines the blighted row houses of The Wire and horse country.

How many blighted buds there are for every full-blown flower or ripened fruit!

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.

A vague hope brought me here, and I confess that, when I saw this hope blighted, my first thought was of revenge.

When the crop sprang up which he had himself helped to sow, he blighted it.

Cloud, that hast revealed to us this young creature and her blighted hopes, close up again.

April 19, 2024tortuous

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