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# blight

«blight» in Mova's school dictionary: **A disease or damage that spoils plants or crops so they…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (blight, blights)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A disease or damage that spoils plants or crops so they cannot grow well. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blight/#m1)

2) Something that spoils or ruins a place or a life. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blight/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in old tales, a sickness of crops sent as a punishment or sign of anger from a goddess.

### examples

- A blight destroyed the potato crop. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blight/#x1)
- The drought and blight left the fields brown. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blight/#x2)
- Bad weather can be a blight on a village. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blight/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «blight» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blight/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.