blighted

  • 1blighted — index marred, tainted (contaminated) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

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  • 2Blighted — Blight Blight (bl[imac]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Blighted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Blighting}.] [Perh. contr. from AS. bl[=i]cettan to glitter, fr. the same root as E. bleak. The meaning to blight comes in that case from to glitter, hence, to be white… …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 3blighted — adjective affected by blight; anything that mars or prevents growth or prosperity (Freq. 1) a blighted rose blighted urban districts • Syn: ↑spoilt • Similar to: ↑destroyed …

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  • 4blighted hope — index pessimism Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

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  • 5blighted spoilt — destroyed destroyed adj. 1. p. p. of {destroy}. [Narrower terms: {annihilated, exterminated, wiped out(predicate)}; {blasted, desolate, desolated, devastated, ravaged, ruined, wasted}; {blighted, spoilt}; {blotted out, obliterate, obliterated};… …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 6blighted area — An unaesthetic and uneconomic section; an area of such kind that razing all the buildings will serve a public purpose, even though a few of them may not be substandard or blighted. Velishka v Nashua, 99 NH 161, 106 A2d 571, 44 ALR2d 1406 …

    Ballentine's law dictionary

  • 7blighted — adjective a) having suffered a blight b) having caused to suffer a blight …

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  • 8blighted — Synonyms and related words: absolute, ausgespielt, baffled, balked, bankrupt, betrayed, bilked, blasted, blessed, blown, botched, broken, chapfallen, confounded, crestfallen, crossed, crushed, cursed, cussed, damnable, dashed, defeated, desolated …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 9blighted — blaɪt n. disease, plague, scourge; affliction, destruction v. destroy, ruin; cause to wither and die (of a plant) …

    English contemporary dictionary

  • 10blighted — blight·ed …

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