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blighting

/blahyt/US // blaɪt //UK // (blaɪt) //

污染,枯萎病,枯萎性疾病,枯萎性

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Plant Pathology. the rapid and extensive discoloration, wilting, and death of plant tissues.a disease so characterized.
    • : any cause of impairment, destruction, ruin, or frustration: Extravagance was the blight of the family.
    • : the state or result of being blighted or deteriorated; dilapidation; decay: urban blight.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to cause to wither or decay; blast: Frost blighted the crops.
    • : to destroy; ruin; frustrate: Illness blighted his hopes.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to suffer blight.

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Examples

  • The department is hopeful the signs will raise awareness among city residents about the challenges of tackling vacancies and blight.

  • Property values, concentrated poverty, blight and all those kinds of things also map really well.

  • Raised in a household with an abusive father, he left home early to live on the streets of New York, surviving as a teen hustler in a city ravaged by some of the worst crime and economic blight in its history.

  • Instead, Klacik made herself a national sensation with a series of viral videos about urban blight in the Maryland 7th that she parlayed into a primetime speaking slot at the Republican National Convention.

  • The state holds an annual peach festival, even though it ceased to be the nation’s largest peach producer, due to a blight, more than a century ago.

  • For the uninitiated, the film is set on a future Earth whose crops (save corn) have been wiped out by a mysterious blight.

  • Was part of the attraction to the project shining a light in this bizarre blight on America?

  • She paints the current rodent situation as more than a foul inconvenience, and one that is a particular blight on poorer areas.

  • In the process, he captured the true spirit of Detroit and its people, all bankruptcy, crime, and urban blight aside.

  • Increasingly, cities long left to rot are rising from the ashes of blight as they try to become shining examples of new urbanism.

  • There is still mademoiselle, with her new-formed friends in Paris—may a pestilence blight them all!

  • The country around Llangollen was beautiful, but the memory of the hotel leaves a blight over all.

  • Tokyo might fall under the blight of progress, but Kano would hold to the traditions of his race.

  • Is not one bitter trouble sufficient to blight all of a sudden the most peaceful and happy life?

  • Out in the vegetable area there were first cutworms and then drought and potato blight to be contended with.