English-Thai Dictionary

blight

N การเสื่อมสลาย  การ พังทลาย  การ ผุพัง  kan-sueam-sa-lai

 

blight

N ความเสียหาย  ความยากลำบาก  khwam-sia-hai

 

blight

VT ทำลาย  ทำให้ เสียหาย  เป็นสาเหตุ ทำให้ เสียหาย  afflict ruin tham-lai

 

blighter

N คำ เรียก คน น่าเห็นใจ หรือ น่าอิจฉา  kham-riak-kon-na-hen-jai-rue-na-id-cha

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

BLIGHT

n. 1. A disease incident to plants, affecting them variously. sometimes the whole plant perishes; sometimes only the leaves and blossoms, which will shrivel, as if scorched.
2. Any thing nipping or blasting.
In America, I have often heard a cutaneous eruption on the human skin called by the name of blights.

 

BLIGHT

v.t.To affect with blight; to blast; to prevent growth, and fertility; to frustrate.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

BLIGHT

Blight, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Blighted; p. pr. & vb. n. Blighting. ]Etym: [Perh. contr. from AS. blicettan 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. [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.

 

BLIGHT

BLIGHT Blight, v. i.

 

Defn: To be affected by blight; to blast; as, this vine never blights.

 

BLIGHT

BLIGHT Blight, n.

 

1. 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.

 

2. 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.

 

3. That which frustrates one's plans or withers one's hopes; that which impairs or destroys. A blight seemed to have fallen over our fortunes. Disraeli.

 

4. (Zoöl.)

 

Defn: 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.

 

5. pl.

 

Defn: A rashlike eruption on the human skin. [U. S.]

 

BLIGHTING

BLIGHTING Blight "ing, a.

 

Defn: Causing blight.

 

BLIGHTINGLY

BLIGHTINGLY Blight "ing *ly, adv.

 

Defn: So as to cause blight.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

blight

blight |blīt blaɪt | ▶noun a plant disease, esp. one caused by fungi such as mildews, rusts, and smuts: the vines suffered blight and disease | potato blight. • [ in sing. ] a thing that spoils or damages something: her remorse could be a blight on that happiness. • an ugly, neglected, or rundown condition of an urban area: the depressing urban blight that lies to the south of the city. ▶verb [ with obj. ] infect (plants or a planted area ) with blight: a peach tree blighted by leaf curl. • spoil, harm, or destroy: the scandal blighted the careers of several leading politicians | (as adj. blighted ) : his father's blighted ambitions. • (usu. as adj. blighted ) subject (an urban area ) to neglect: plans to establish enterprise zones in blighted areas. ORIGIN mid 16th cent. (denoting inflammation of the skin ): of unknown origin.

 

blighter

blight er |ˈblītər ˈblaɪdər | ▶noun [ with adj. ] Brit. informal a person who is regarded with contempt, irritation, or pity: you little blighter! ORIGIN early 19th cent.: from blight + -er 1 .

 

Blighty

Blight y |ˈblītē ˈblaɪdi | ▶noun Brit. an informal and typically affectionate term for Britain or England, chiefly as used by soldiers of World War I and World War II. • military slang a wound suffered by a soldier in World War I that was sufficiently serious to merit being shipped home to Britain: he had copped a Blighty and was on his way home. ORIGIN first used by soldiers in the Indian army; Anglo-Indian alteration of Urdu bilāyatī, wilāyatī ‘foreign, European, ’ from Arabic wilāyat, wilāya ‘dominion, district. ’

 

Oxford Dictionary

blight

blight |blʌɪt | ▶noun [ mass noun ] 1 a plant disease, typically one caused by fungi such as mildews, rusts, and smuts: the vines suffered blight and disease | potato blight. 2 [ in sing. ] a thing that spoils or damages something: her remorse could be a blight on that happiness. • the degeneration of a landscape or urban area as a result of neglect: the city's high-rise social housing had become synonymous with urban blight. ▶verb 1 [ with obj. ] infect (plants ) with blight. 2 spoil, harm, or destroy: the scandal blighted the careers of several leading politicians. • (usu. as adj. blighted ) subject (an urban area ) to neglect: plans to establish enterprise zones in blighted areas. ORIGIN mid 16th cent. (denoting inflammation of the skin ): of unknown origin.

 

blighter

blight ¦er |ˈblʌɪtə | ▶noun [ with adj. ] Brit. informal a person who is regarded with contempt, irritation, or pity: you little blighter! ORIGIN early 19th cent.: from blight + -er 1 .

 

Blighty

Blighty |ˈblʌɪti | ▶noun Brit. an informal term for Britain or England, used by soldiers of the First and Second World Wars. • military slang a wound suffered by a soldier in the First World War which was sufficiently serious to merit being shipped home to Britain: he had copped a Blighty and was on his way home. ORIGIN first used by soldiers in the Indian army; Anglo-Indian alteration of Urdu bilāyatī, wilāyatī ‘foreign, European ’, from Arabic wilāyat, wilāya ‘dominion, district ’.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

blight

blight noun 1 potato blight: disease, canker, infestation, fungus, mildew, mold. 2 the blight of aircraft noise: affliction, scourge, bane, curse, plague, menace, misfortune, woe, trouble, ordeal, trial, nuisance, pest. ANTONYMS blessing. ▶verb 1 a tree blighted by leaf curl: infect, mildew; kill, destroy. 2 scandal blighted the careers of several politicians: ruin, wreck, spoil, mar, frustrate, disrupt, undo, end, scotch, destroy, shatter, devastate, demolish; informal mess up, foul up, stymie.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

blight

blight noun 1 potato blight: disease, canker, infestation, fungus, mildew, mould, rot, decay. 2 the government are protecting people from the blight of aircraft noise: affliction, scourge, bane, curse, plague, menace, evil, misfortune, woe, calamity, trouble, ordeal, thorn in one's flesh /side, trial, tribulation, visitation, nuisance, pest, pollution, contamination, cancer, canker. ANTONYMS blessing. ▶verb 1 a peach tree blighted by leaf curl: infect, wither, shrivel, blast, mildew, nip in the bud, kill, destroy. 2 the scandal blighted the careers of several leading politicians: ruin, wreck, spoil, disrupt, undo, mar, play havoc with, make a mess of, put an end to, end, bring to an end, put a stop to, prevent, frustrate, crush, quell, quash, dash, destroy, scotch, shatter, devastate, demolish, sabotage; informal mess up, screw up, louse up, foul up, make a hash of, do in, put paid to, put the lid on, put the kibosh on, stymie, queer, nix, banjax, blow a hole in; Brit. informal scupper, dish, throw a spanner in the works of; N. Amer. informal throw a monkey wrench in the works of; Austral. informal euchre, cruel; archaic bring to naught.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

blight

blight /blaɪt /名詞 1 U (植物の )病害 〘特に葉枯れ病, 胴枯れ病 〙; (植物に害を及ぼす )菌, 害虫 .2 C 【前途 希望などを 】くじくもの, 障害 «on » .3 U (都市などの )荒廃 .動詞 他動詞 1 〈病害 霜などが 〉〈植物 〉を枯らす, しおれさせる .2 〈前途 希望など 〉をくじく, 損なう ; …を破壊する .

 

blighter

bl í ght er 名詞 C ｟やや古 英 くだけて ｠1 〖修飾語の後で 〗…な男, やつ (!呼びかけにも用いられる ) .2 嫌なやつ .

 

Blighty

Blight y /bláɪti /名詞 複 -ies C ｟英俗 やや古 ｠〖時にb -〗1 (外地から見た )英本国 .2 (第1次大戦時の本国送還になるような )負傷 .3 (軍隊の英本国での )休暇 .