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Blighted

//ˈblaɪtɪd// adj, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Having caused to suffer a blight.
  2. 2
    Having suffered a blight.

    "The Glenbrook Community Center is in disrepair and has been closed for a number of years, which means it is the exact kind of dilapidated and blighted building CAVE People will do everything to protect."

  3. 3
    Ruined, spoiled.

    "Mark—how that that lone and blighted bosom sears / The scathing thought of execrated years!"

Adjective
  1. 1
    affected by blight; anything that mars or prevents growth or prosperity wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    simple past and past participle of blight form-of, participle, past

Etymology

Etymology 1

From blight + -ed.

Etymology 2

From blight + -ed.

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