(v. t.) To affect with blight; to blast; to prevent the growth and fertility of.
(v. t.) Hence: To destroy the happiness of; to ruin; to mar essentially; to frustrate; as, to blight one's prospects.
(v. i.) To be affected by blight; to blast; as, this vine never blights.
(n.) Mildew; decay; anything nipping or blasting; -- applied as a general name to various injuries or diseases of plants, causing the whole or a part to wither, whether occasioned by insects, fungi, or atmospheric influences.
(n.) The act of blighting, or the state of being blighted; a withering or mildewing, or a stoppage of growth in the whole or a part of a plant, etc.
(n.) That which frustrates one's plans or withers one's hopes; that which impairs or destroys.
(n.) A downy species of aphis, or plant louse, destructive to fruit trees, infesting both the roots and branches; -- also applied to several other injurious insects.
(n.) A rashlike eruption on the human skin.
Example Sentences:
(1) Blight responded with a hypothetical, telling Ludlam if the ASD asked a foreign agency to get material about Australian citizens it could not access under Australian law, the IGIS would know about it and flag it in its annual report.
(2) The environment secretary, Liz Truss , has stripped farmers of subsidies for solar farms, saying they are a “blight” that was pushing food production overseas.
(3) Indeed, while people might be annoyed or alarmed at the idea of being given placebos, medics probably wouldn't need to were it not for the modern blight of the Worried Well clogging up consulting rooms.
(4) Isolates of Helminthosporium maydis from blighted corn were tested for toxicity in mice, rats, swine, rabbits, microorganisms, and tissue culture.
(5) "For families across the UK who are income-poor, but more than that, whose lives are blighted by worklessness, educational failure, family breakdown, problem debt and poor health, as well as other problems, giving them an extra pound – say through increased benefits – will not address the reason they find themselves in difficulty in the first place."
(6) The England international, who has made 18 appearances in a season blighted by a number of fitness problems, has flown to the US to see Dr Peter Asnis, an orthopaedic surgeon connected to Fenway Sports Group’s other major acquisition, the Boston Red Sox, in an attempt to solve his hip injury.
(7) The disadvantaging of modern languages candidates in school examinations has been blighting the subject at all levels, and will continue to do so until the unfair grading is addressed effectively.
(8) But the bumper year was somewhat blighted in the UK as Google was one of a number of multinational companies, including Amazon and Starbucks, that came under fire from MPs over their tax arrangements .
(9) In both cases, her coaching seems to have paid off, at least for a time: those GOP lawmakers walked into decidedly fewer self-sabotaging boobytraps in the election cycle following the 2013 retreat at which she spoke, and Pence’s strong performance at the RNC last month was a bright spot in an otherwise blighted convention.
(10) 8, a super Chinese rice cultivar with high productivity, good quality and high resistance to both bacterial blight and blast.
(11) Puts another swath of west London directly under a flight path, and blights thousands more.
(12) A viral double-stranded (ds)RNA associated with reduced virulence (hypovirulence) and the accompanying biological control of the chestnut blight fungus, Cryphonectria parasitica, was shown recently to contain two contiguous coding domains designated ORF A and ORF B.
(13) We evaluated the differences between this group and those patients presenting either with a blighted ovum or beyond the first trimester, as well as the outcome of those patients with spotting early in gestation.
(14) And although in a few cases Pathfinder entailed the demolition of housing in genuinely blighted areas, and though there's no doubt that northern cities were depopulated from their mid-20th century heights, market correction was always the rationale.
(15) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Part of an outer structure of a blighted home stands along Alter Road in Detroit.
(16) According to them the diagnosis of blighted ovum and missed abortion seems to be confirmed when an "empty sac" is larger than 20 mm, or the absence of heart motion is detected in an embrio greater than 10 mm, without repeated scan.
(17) It soon emerged that the City Planning Commission had already, surreptitiously, designated the area as blighted.
(18) We have synthesized and mapped a cDNA library representing the one major dsRNA element associated with hypovirulence in strain NB58 of the chestnut blight fungus, Cryphonectira (=Endothia) parasitica, which was isolated from recovering chestnut trees in New Jersey, U.S.A.
(19) This article reports the initiation of a joint hospital-school district child protection committee in an urban setting of socio-economic blight.
(20) The rail network remains blighted by the unnecessary complexities of the framework established under the privatisation he rightly criticises.
Pest
Definition:
(n.) A fatal epidemic disease; a pestilence; specif., the plague.
(n.) Anything which resembles a pest; one who, or that which, is troublesome, noxious, mischievous, or destructive; a nuisance.
Example Sentences:
(1) In pest control operations, organophosphorus compounds (OP) have been sprayed as insecticides, blood cholinesterase (ChE) activities and urinary alkylphosphate levels were measured for both OP-sprayers (n = 102) and non-sprayers (n = 35) in pest control companies, and the relationship between the analytical results and spraying conditions was investigated.
(2) The main animal paramyxoviruses are parainfluenza 3 (agent of shipping fever) in cattle; NDV (cause of fowl pest) and Yucaipavirus in birds; Sendai and PVM in mice; Nariva virus in rodents; possibly bovinerespiratory syncytial virus; and SV5 and SV41 in monkeys.
(3) Problems that arise when chemical control of pests is applied--risks for producer, applier, consumer and the environment as well as development of resistance against pesticides--have led to the conclusion that other forms of pest control have to be searched for to guarantee production of sufficient crops in the future.
(4) Kairomones may prove useful in manipulating natural or released biological agents for more effective biological control of insect pests.
(5) In most ways they are model compounds for integrated control and pest management activities and thus merit greater attention than they have received to elucidate the fundamentals underlying their unusual properties and actions.
(6) Salivary fluids of Blaberus craniifer, a common pest species of cockroach, were found to produce leukocytolysis and hemagglutination reactions of human blood cells under in vitro conditions.
(7) Immunity induced in birds after immunization was followed serologically by the titre of serum antihaemaglutinins and by provocation with a highly virulent pseudo-pest virus strain.
(8) The technique is based on adsorbing out the cross reacting antibodies to peste des petits ruminants antigens from a rinderpest immune serum, thereby leaving active the specific antibody to rinderpest which is determined by haemagglutination-inhibition test.
(9) Cattle are the primary host for the major pest mosquito Psorophora columbiae in the rice production region of the Gulf-south.
(10) The cohort encompassed 1,214 male subjects with at least 5 years pest control work between 1945 and 1980.
(11) None of the immune sera could reliably differentiate Hb G-Pest from Hb A1.
(12) The two morbilliviruses rinderpest virus (RPV) and peste des petits ruminants virus (PPRV) are closely related and cause severe disease in large and small ruminants, respectively.
(13) Two methods, one nontemplate (variance ratio) and one template (cross-correlation), were evaluated for response recognition while three threshold tracking methods were explored: clinical, Békésy, and PEST (parameter estimation by sequential testing).
(14) The model suggests, broadly, that non-targets are unlikely to be seriously threatened in such cases, and also that non-targets, far from undermining pest control, are quite likely to contribute to its efficacy.
(15) Worse, pests like the berry borer beetle and leaf rust fungus are flourishing as the world warms.
(16) Because of their broad spectrum of activity, longevity, and safety, these compounds, along with several other members of this family, have important applications as repellents of nuisance pests and of arthropods of public health importance.
(17) More thorough evaluation of tactics that seek to optimize benefits of more than one insecticide will require rigorous experiments with the particular pest and pesticide combinations.
(18) Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton issued an executive order last August that requires farmers to demonstrate a need for pest control before using neonics.
(19) A cohort of 1,214 pest control workers employed during 1945-1980 for at least 5 yr was investigated with regard to cancer mortality.
(20) The review of developments in these crops suggests that programs of control for individual crops and perhaps for complexes of associated crops will be developed according to specific needs of the crop, the geographic area and the pests, the technologies available and the socioeconomic and political factors of relevance.