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Synonyms: Noun
blemish, blotch, defect, deformity, disfigurement, excrescence, excrescency, fault, flaw, imperfection, mar, mark, pockmark, scar
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Examples of blight in a Sentence
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the city's spreading urban blight the expanding urban sprawl is a blight on the countrysideVerb
Builders blighted the land with malls and parking lots.
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Efforts to eviscerate federal blight-fighting and affordable housing programs have been underway for years. — Danielle Ohl, ProPublica, "Trump Called Baltimore “Vermin Infested” While the Federal Government Fails to Clean Up Rodents in Subsidized Housing," 14 Aug. 2019 Dubious transactions processed by people acting as property managers, though, add another layer of complexity to Indianapolis’ blight problem. — Ryan Martin, Indianapolis Star, "'They’re just patching it up': Tenants lack electricity, water in homes Joe Hogsett calls 'transformed'," 1 July 2019 If a house cannot be repaired, it will be demolished through the city’s blight elimination program. — USA TODAY, "Moon rocks, Misty of Chincoteague, Haiku Stairs: News from around our 50 states," 28 June 2019 In hopes of muscling that tree through to survival, researchers create DNA hybrids that are 15/16 American chestnut and 1/16 blight-resistant Chinese chestnut. — Robert Langellier, National Geographic, "A legendary Ozark chestnut tree, thought extinct, is rediscovered," 24 June 2019 And some of those chestnuts weren’t killed by the blight. — WSJ, "Natural Breeding Under the Spreading Chestnut Tree," 26 June 2019 However, Heineman noted, Mitchell was thinking about tourism in the early 1970s after growing up in Galveston and seeing the city struggle with blight before being reinvigorated with tourist amenities. — Jeff Forward, Houston Chronicle, "George Mitchell’s legacy lives on in The Woodlands as community nears 50 years," 6 June 2019 With all the rain, early blight, late blight and various fungal leaf spots have begun showing up. — Dan Gill, nola.com, "Protect tomatoes from these diseases and pests," 13 Apr. 2019 Having a space that is beautiful gives a tremendous amount of pride to the local community, especially communities like Washington Park, which is surrounded by a high unemployment rate and a high degree of blight. — Natalie Wade, chicagotribune.com, "Activists and farmers tackle food deserts on Chicago’s South Side — 'Food is a tool of resistance’," 28 June 2019Recent Examples on the Web: Verb
The French defender didn't feature at all for City last season, with his last competitive appearance coming in February 2018, in a loan spell with Everton that was blighted by a horror knee injury that kept him sidelined for almost nine months. — SI.com, "Valencia Confirm Signing of Manchester City Outcast Eliaquim Mangala on Two-Year Deal," 12 Aug. 2019 The president suggested that the congressman was a hypocrite for criticizing conditions in migrant detention centers at the southwestern border when his own district is blighted. — Peter Baker, BostonGlobe.com, "Trump assails congressional critic, calling his majority-black district a ‘disgusting,’ rat-infested ‘mess’," 27 July 2019 But Larry's work in the neighborhood where Sharon grew up, which had been blighted by riots, was far from complete. — Erin Kelly, CBS News, "Couple helps transform blighted Milwaukee community, one block at a time," 25 July 2019 The battalion and its rugby team offered sources of Maori pride during post-war decades blighted by poverty, discrimination and the decline of Maori rural society and culture. — C.h., The Economist, "Why New Zealand’s other All Blacks matter," 18 July 2019 The tower and its eight-story companion building fill the north side of Folsom Street between First and Fremont streets — a site that languished as a parking lot after the freeway ramps that blighted it were removed in the mid-1990s. — John King, SFChronicle.com, "Chiseled glass tower offers window into SF’s contradictions," 18 July 2019 The Somali-Canadian journalist was a social media star, using her large following to tell positive stories about her home country of Somalia, a place long blighted by famine and war. — Doug Criss, CNN, "5 things to know for July 15: Trump tweets, Barry, immigration," 15 July 2019 Even more significant are the blighting effects on survivors. — Sarah Todd, Quartz at Work, "The short but destructive history of mass layoffs," 12 July 2019 Community action officers — who assist with block watches and community group concerns — and officers in the neighborhood-enforcement teams — who respond to blight and neighborhood crimes — will not wear body cameras, Martos said. — Jessica Boehm, azcentral, "Phoenix is the largest city in the nation without widespread police body cameras," 17 June 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'blight.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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