Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Producing the effects of blight.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Causing blight.
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- verb Present participle of
blight .
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Examples
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The word blighting here, noted as unsuitable by Rossetti, is cancelled in the Bodleian manuscript (Locock).
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By the application of this principle, she had extinguished her brother-in-law's passion for Janet Merryweather, and she hoped that it would prove equally effective in blighting her son's incipient fancy for Molly.
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The word blighting here, noted as unsuitable by Rossetti, is cancelled in the Bodleian manuscript (Locock).
The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Volume 3 Percy Bysshe Shelley 1807
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The word blighting here, noted as unsuitable by Rossetti, is cancelled in the Bodleian manuscript (Locock).
The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Complete Percy Bysshe Shelley 1807
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'profligate,' 'brutal,' 'godless,' 'blighting' -- does not each involve research, investigation, comparison, analysis, deliberation, a heavy tax upon the intellectual resources of the church if any result worth having is to be obtained?
Preaching and Paganism Albert Parker Fitch
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The high court unanimously ruled a municipality cannot condemn a property simply by declaring it not fully productive, thus raising the bar on proofs for 'blighting' an area to further redevelopment.
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