<p><strong>Noun:</strong></p><ul><li>Plant Pathology: the rapid and extensive discoloration, wilting, and death of plant tissues</li><li>a disease so characterized</li><li>any cause of impairment, destruction, ruin, or frustration: Extravagance was the blight of the family</li></ul><p><strong>Synonyms:</strong></p><ul><li><p>bane</p></li><li><p>scourge</p></li><li><p>plague</p></li><li><p>curse</p></li><li><p>the state or result of being blighted or deteriorated; dilapidation; decay: urban blight</p></li></ul><hr><p><strong>Verb (used with object):</strong></p><ul><li>to cause to wither or decay; blast: Frost blighted the crops</li><li>to destroy; ruin; frustrate: Illness blighted his hopes</li></ul><p><strong>Verb (used without object):</strong></p><ul><li>to suffer blight</li></ul>