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# blighted

«blighted» in Mova's school dictionary: **Spoiled, damaged or ruined, especially by disease, bad…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (no comparative)

### meaning for a pupil

Spoiled, damaged or ruined, especially by disease, bad weather or bad luck. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blighted/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

crops, gardens or hopes that have been spoiled, often in tales of hard times.

### examples

- The blighted apples fell to the ground. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blighted/#x1)
- The wet summer left the fields blighted. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blighted/#x2)
- Their hopes were blighted by the flood. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blighted/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths.

### Trees and pragmatics

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