Guard wages war on blighted properties in Petersburg. To exert a malignant or baleful influence on blast or mar the beauty, hopes, or prospects of frustrate.Īn insect, usually inconspicuous or hidden, which causes trees or plants to become diseased or to die, as the American blight. To affect with blight cause to wither or decay nip, blast, or destroy. In medicine: A slight facial paralysis induced by sudden cold or damp.
In botany it is sometimes restricted to a class of minute parasitic fungi, the Erysiphaceæ, which grow upon the surface of leaves or stems without entering the tissues, and produce a whitish appearance, but is frequently applied also to those of other groups which are destructive to crops.įiguratively, any malignant or mysterious influence that nips, blasts, destroys, or brings to naught anything which withers hope, blasts one's prospects, or checks prosperity. Some influence, usually hidden or not conspicuous, that nips, blasts, or destroys plants a diseased state of plants caused by the condition of the soil, atmospheric influences, insects, parasitic plants, etc. "This vapor] blasts vegetables, blights corn and fruit, and is sometimes injurious even to man." To affect with blight to blast to prevent the growth and fertility of. The act of blighting, or the state of being blighted a withering or mildewing, or a stoppage of growth in the whole or a part of a plant, etc. "A blight seemed to have fallen over our fortunes." That which frustrates one's plans or withers one's hopes that which impairs or destroys. Mildew decay anything nipping or blasting - applied as a general name to various injuries or diseases of plants, causing the whole or a part to wither, whether occasioned by insects, fungi, or atmospheric influences. Hence: To destroy the happiness of to ruin to mar essentially to frustrate as, to blight one's prospects. (Zoöl) A downy species of aphis, or plant louse, destructive to fruit trees, infesting both the roots and branches - also applied to several other injurious insects.
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