blight

1. 1.

   cause to suffer a blight

   “Too much rain may blight the garden with mold”

   Synonymsplague

   Broaderafflict

Other forms of blight

plural

blights·

past tense

blighted·

present participle

blighting·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about blight

What does blight mean?

blight means "a state or condition being blighted". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in blight?

blight has 1 syllable: blight. In IPA it is /ˈblaɪt/.

What is another word for blight?

Close synonyms include plague. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is blight a common word?

blight is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.