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# blight

noun (blight, blights)

«blight» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A disease or damage that spoils plants or crops so they cannot grow well. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blight/#m1)
2. Something that spoils or ruins a place or a life. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blight/#m2)

### In the lessons

in old tales, a sickness of crops sent as a punishment or sign of anger from a goddess.

### Examples

- A blight destroyed the potato crop. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blight/#x1)
- The drought and blight left the fields brown. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blight/#x2)
- Bad weather can be a blight on a village. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blight/#x3)

### Note

nothing for maths.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «blight» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blight/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«blight» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/blight.html) on Mova free.