What part of speech is blight?

Blight can be categorized as a noun and a verb.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. blight is a verb, present, 1st person singular of blight (infinitive).
  • 2. blight is a verb (infinitive).
  • 3. blight is a noun, singular of blights.

Inflections

Verb

Noun

What does blight mean?

Definitions

Verb

blight - cause to suffer a blight; "Too much rain may blight the garden with mold"

Noun

blight - any plant disease resulting in withering without rotting
blight - a state or condition being blighted

Examples of blight

#   Sentence  
1. verb Too much rain may blight the garden with mold.
2. noun The doctor said that this blight is immedicable.
3. noun Here is a red spider, not so big as a pin's head. Can you imagine an elephant being interested in him—caring whether he is happy or isn't, or whether he is wealthy or poor, or whether his sweetheart returns his love or not, or whether his mother is sick or well, or whether he is looked up to in society or not, or whether his enemies will smite him or his friends desert him, or whether his hopes will suffer blight or his political ambitions fail, or whether he shall die in the bosom of his family or neglected and despised in a foreign land?
4. noun A devastating potato blight and famine struck in Ireland in the 1840's.
5. noun "Nor in my madness kept my purpose low, / but vowed, if e'er should happier chance invite, / and bring me home a conqueror, even so / my comrade's death with vengeance to requite. / My words aroused his wrath; thence evil's earliest blight. / Thenceforth Ulysses sought with slanderous tongue / to daunt me, scattering in the people's ear / dark hints, and looked for partners of his wrong; / nor rested, till with Calchas' aid, the seer..."
6. noun Some see the pavement urinals as an innovation that might help rid the French capital of unpleasant sights and smells, while others complain that the bright red boxes are a blight on the city's picturesque streets.
7. noun The sugar cane blight ruined the harvest.
Sentence  
verb
Too much rain may blight the garden with mold.
noun
The doctor said that this blight is immedicable.
Here is a red spider, not so big as a pin's head. Can you imagine an elephant being interested in him—caring whether he is happy or isn't, or whether he is wealthy or poor, or whether his sweetheart returns his love or not, or whether his mother is sick or well, or whether he is looked up to in society or not, or whether his enemies will smite him or his friends desert him, or whether his hopes will suffer blight or his political ambitions fail, or whether he shall die in the bosom of his family or neglected and despised in a foreign land?
A devastating potato blight and famine struck in Ireland in the 1840's.
"Nor in my madness kept my purpose low, / but vowed, if e'er should happier chance invite, / and bring me home a conqueror, even so / my comrade's death with vengeance to requite. / My words aroused his wrath; thence evil's earliest blight. / Thenceforth Ulysses sought with slanderous tongue / to daunt me, scattering in the people's ear / dark hints, and looked for partners of his wrong; / nor rested, till with Calchas' aid, the seer..."
Some see the pavement urinals as an innovation that might help rid the French capital of unpleasant sights and smells, while others complain that the bright red boxes are a blight on the city's picturesque streets.
The sugar cane blight ruined the harvest.

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