The doctor said that this blight is immedicable.
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Blight
/blaɪt/
Synonyms for "blight" (264 found)
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Closest matches (53)
abnormalityabominationabuseacute diseaseadverse circumstancesadversityaffectionafflictafflictionaggravationaggrieveailmentallergic diseaseallergyannoyanceatrocityatrophybacterial diseasebadbane
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befoulbefoulmentbewitchbirth defectblastblast-freezebotchbummercalamitycancercankercardiovascular diseasecarechronic diseasecirculatory diseasecomplaintcomplicationcompromisecondemnconditioncongealcongenital defectcorruptcorruptioncrosscrucifycrying evilcurse
Strong matches (79)
damagedashdeep freezedefectdeficiency diseasedefiledefilementdeformitydegenerative diseasedepravedespoildespoliationdestroydestructiondetrimentdifficultiesdifficultydisabilitydisadvantagedisease
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disorderdisservedistemperdistressdo a mischiefdo evildo illdo wrongdo wrong bydoomdownerdry rotendemicendemic diseaseendocrine diseaseenvenomepidemic diseaseevilfly in the ointmentfreezefreeze solidfunctional diseasefungusfungus diseasegastrointestinal diseasegenetic diseaseget into troubleglaciateglacifygrievancehandicapharasshard knockshard lifehard lothardcasehardshipharmhavochereditary diseasehexhurtiatrogenic diseaseiceillillnessimpairindispositioninfect
Verb(1 words)
Related words (132)
infectioninfectious diseaseinfestinfestationinfirmityinjureinjuryirritationjinxmaladymalaisemaltreatmarmenacemildewmischiefmisfortunemistreatmoldmolest
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morbiditymorbusmothmoth and rustmouldmouldermouldymuscular diseasemustneurological diseasenipnutritional diseaseoccupational diseaseorganic diseaseoutrageovershadowpandemic diseasepathological conditionpathologypersecutepestpestilencepipplagueplant diseaseplay havoc withplay hob withplightpoisonpollutepollutionpredicamentprejudicepressureprotozoan diseasepsychosomatic diseasequick-freezerefreezeregelaterespiratory diseaserigorrockinessrotruinrustsavagescathescourgesea of troublessecondary diseaseseedinessshadowsickishnesssicknesssignsignssmutsnake in the grassspoilstressstress of lifesymptomsymptomatologysymptomologysymptomssyndrometaintthe pipthe worstthreatentormenttorturetoxintrialtribulationtroubletroublesulcerundoingurogenital diseasevale of tearsvenomvexationvicissitudeviolatevirus diseasevisitationwasting diseasewitherwoewormworm diseaseworsenwoundwreak havocwreak havoc onwreckwrong
Noun(12 words)
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More general
18 entriesShowing 16 of 18 words.
More specific
13 entriescareer blightcommercial district blightcrop blightcultural blightearly blighteconomic blightlate blightneighborhood blightpotato blightproject blightreputation blighturban blightwheat blight
Collocations
10 entriesblight resistanceblighted futurecrop blightearly blighteconomic blightfungal blightlate blightplant blightpotato blighturban blight
Inflections
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3 entriesSample sentences
34 total sentences available.
Here is a red spider, not so big as a pin's head. Can you imagine an elephant being interested in him—caring whether he is happy or isn't, or whether he is wealthy or poor, or whether his sweetheart returns his love or not, or whether his mother is sick or well, or whether he is looked up to in society or not, or whether his enemies will smite him or his friends desert him, or whether his hopes will suffer blight or his political ambitions fail, or whether he shall die in the bosom of his family or neglected and despised in a foreign land?
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A devastating potato blight and famine struck in Ireland in the 1840's.
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"Nor in my madness kept my purpose low, / but vowed, if e'er should happier chance invite, / and bring me home a conqueror, even so / my comrade's death with vengeance to requite. / My words aroused his wrath; thence evil's earliest blight. / Thenceforth Ulysses sought with slanderous tongue / to daunt me, scattering in the people's ear / dark hints, and looked for partners of his wrong; / nor rested, till with Calchas' aid, the seer..."
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