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blighted 音標拼音: [bl'ɑɪtɪd] 毀滅的 毀滅的 blighted adj 1: affected by blight; anything that mars or prevents growth or prosperity; " a blighted rose"; " blighted urban districts" [ synonym: { blighted}, { spoilt}] Blight \ Blight\ ( bl[ imac] t), v. t. [ imp. & p. p. { Blighted}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Blighting}.] [ Perh. contr. from AS. bl[ imac] 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 or pale, grow pale, make pale, bleach. Cf. { Bleach}, { Bleak}.] 1. To affect with blight; to blast; to prevent the growth and fertility of. [ 1913 Webster] [ This vapor] blasts vegetables, blights corn and fruit, and is sometimes injurious even to man. -- Woodward. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Hence: To destroy the happiness of; to ruin; to mar essentially; to frustrate; as, to blight one' s prospects. [ 1913 Webster] Seared in heart and lone and blighted. -- Byron. [ 1913 Webster] 83 Moby Thesaurus words for " blighted": absolute, ausgespielt, baffled, balked, bankrupt, betrayed, bilked, blasted, blessed, blown, botched, broken, chapfallen, confounded, crestfallen, crossed, crushed, cursed, cussed, damnable, dashed, defeated, desolated, despoiled, destroyed, devastated, disappointed, dished, disillusioned, dissatisfied, done for, done in, down- and- out, downright, execrable, fallen, finished, flyblown, foiled, frowsty, frowsy, frowzy, frustrated, fusty, gone to pot, gross, ill done- by, ill- served, in ruins, infernal, irremediable, kaput, let down, maggoty, marred, mildewed, moldering, moldy, moth- eaten, musty, out of countenance, out- and- out, overthrown, rank, ravaged, regretful, ruined, ruinous, smutted, smutty, sorely disappointed, soured, spoiled, spoilt, straight- out, thwarted, undone, unmitigated, wasted, weevily, worm- eaten, wormy, wrecked
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