Blight Synonyms and Antonyms

blīt
Decomposition
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. disease
  2. withering
  3. mildew
  4. scourge
To have a deleterious effect on; ruin.
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. blast
Disease
(Noun)
Antonyms:
  1. health
  2. boon
  3. prosperity
  4. bounty
  5. blessing

Words Related to Blight

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Blight Sentence Examples

  • But fortune now brought Bonaparte to blight those hopes.

  • She can bring blight to a nations crops or make a woman barren.

  • Those include mites, termites (or white ants), thread blight, grey blight, caterpillars (naked or in bags) and caterpillars armed with stinging hairs to protect them, and borers, red and black, some of which eat the core out of the wood, while others content themselves with eating only the bark.

  • These crops will grow very quickly and are more likely to be challenged by blight inoculum earlier in their growth.

  • The father of the bridegroom objected not to his son's choice, but to the time he chose to marry; for it was a blight on his son's prospects, depriving him of his fellowship and his chance of church preferment.

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