Word Type

Noun

Verb

The word "blight" can be used as noun and verb.

Word Relationships

Derived Terms

Irish blight blight bird blight canker blight in the eye blight-beetle blighted blighten blighter blighting blightingly blightscape blighty eye blight frictional blight functional blight planning blight unblight urban blight

Etymologically Related To

bleak

Context

plant disease

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

afflict desolation devastation plant disease smite

Narrower Terms (Hyponyms)

American blight Sphaeropsis blight alder blight aphis-blight apple blight bean blight beet blight blister blight bur oak blight cane blight celery blight chestnut blight coffee blight collar blight early blight fire blight fireblight fusarium ear blight fusarium head blight green blight halo blight head blight kernel blight late blight leaf blight moth blight needle blight northern corn-leaf blight northern leaf blight oak blight peach blight pear blight pine blight potato blight rim blight sandy blight seedling blight southern blight spinach blight spur blight stamen blight stem blight stripe blight sun blight thread blight tomato blight twig blight walnut blight

Type Of (IsA)

devastation plant disease

Manner Of

afflict

Related Terms

aspect bacterium blast damage death development disease fruit fungus growth impede leaf life plant ruin spoil virus

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