Blightscape

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A vulgar, decaying, or ruined place.

    "The film moves Barker's decaying British urban blightscape to an even grungier Chicago and the Cabrini-Green wasteland."

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"The film moves Barker's decaying British urban blightscape to an even grungier Chicago and the Cabrini-Green wasteland."

Etymology

From blight + -scape.

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