資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Blight \Blight\ (bl[imac]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Blighted}; p.
   pr. & vb. n. {Blighting}.] [Perh. contr. from AS.
   bl[=i]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.

            [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.

Blighting \Blight"ing\, a.
   Causing blight.