blight

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(senseid) A diseased condition suffered by a plant; specifically, a complete and rapid chlorosis, browning, then death of plant tissues such as floral organs, leaves, branches, or twigs, especially one caused by a fungus; a mildew, a rust, a smut.
(RQ:Dryden Georgics)
(RQ:John Gay Poems)
(RQ:Miller Gardeners Dictionary)
(quote-book)
The cause of such a condition, often unseen but believed to be airborne; specifically, a bacterium, a virus, or (especially) a fungus; also, an aphid which attacks trees.
A state of cloudy, humid weather.
(RQ:Bulwer-Lytton Harold)
(senseid) A diseased condition of the face or skin; specifically, bleeding under the conjunctiva of the eye, a form of skin rash, or a palsy of the face due to cold.
Something that impedes development or growth, or spoils any other aspect of life.
(RQ:Mary Shelley Frankenstein)
(RQ:Dickens Dombey and Son)
(RQ:Buchan Watcher)
A rundown and unsightly condition of an urban area; also, such an area.
To affect the fertility or growth of (a plant) with a blight ''(noun (senseno))'', especially one caused by a fungus; to blast, to mildew, to smut.

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(RQ:Woodward Natural History)
(RQ:Tennyson Poems 1842)
(quote-journal); London: & Marshall|Simpkin and Marshall, and Richard Groombridge|month=August|year=1840|volume=II|issue=X|section=stanza IV|page=157|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=rC8FAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA157|oclc=270730063|passage=Oh, Love! like the blast of the desert thou blightest / The fairest of flowers with thy venomous breath.
(quote-book)|seriesvolume=10|location=Oxford, Oxfordshire|publisher=Henry Parker (writer)|John Henry Parker; London: (publishers)|J. G. F. and J. Rivington|volume=!I (Apologetic and Practical Treatises)|year=1842|pages=54–55|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/tertullian10tert/page/54/mode/1up|oclc=1015444099|passage=Much is permitted to the power of spirits, so that, being unseen and unperceived, they appear rather in their effects than in their acts: as when some lurking evil in the air blighteth the fruit or grain in the blossom, killeth it in the blade, woundeth it in its full growth, and when the atmosphere tainted in some secret way poureth over the earth its pestilential vapours.
To affect (a part) with a disease.
(RQ:Scott Don Roderick)
To impede the development or growth of (an aspect of life); to damage, to ruin, to spoil.

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(quote-book)|chapter=The Second Sermon|title=Gods Blessing in Blasting, and His Mercy in Mildew. Two Sermons Sutable to These Times of Death|location=London|publisher=(...) Iohn Haviland for William Bladen,(nb...)|year=1623|page=44|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=uErLxQsHv4oC&pg=PA44|oclc=1203238552|passage=To be too far in loue vvith vvorldly felicity, that ſo blighteth goodneſſe and pietie, vvhat is it but vvith the ''Thurij'' to make an idoll of the vvinde, and to be in loue vvith blaſting.
(RQ:Spectator)
(quote-journal) (a New Edit.) pp. 648. Houlston & Stoneman, Paternoster Row.|editor=Robert Montgomery Martin|journal=The Colonial Magazine and Commercial-Maritime Journal|location=London&59; Liverpool|publisher=Fisher, Son, & Co.|month=June|year=1840|volume=II|issue=6|page=236|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=vS1RAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA236|oclc=|passage=Slavery, in all thy forms—mental and bodily—we detest thee! like the Upas-tree, thou blightest every thing within they poisonous influence; like the simoom, thou blastest all, wherever thy pestiferous breath reaches.
(RQ:C. Sinclair Modern Flirtations)
(RQ:Eliot Romola)
(RQ:Trollope He Knew)
(RQ:Twain Tom Sawyer)
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Of a plant: to suffer blight ''(noun (senseno))''.