blight

blight is a   Verb

Definition:

[1] To affect with blight; to blast; to prevent the growth and fertility of. [This vapor] blasts vegetables, blights corn and fruit, and is sometimes injurious even to man. Woodward.

[2] Hence: To destroy the happiness of; to ruin; to mar essentially; to frustrate; as, to blight one`s prospects. Seared in heart and lone and blighted. Byron.

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