1. Any plant disease resulting in withering without rotting
   "The potato crop was devastated by blight"
    
2. A state or condition being blighted
   "The blight on the potato crop threatened the entire harvest"
    
3. Something that causes widespread harm, destruction, or misery
   "Corruption was a blight on the administration";
   - plague

1. Infect or infest with disease
   "Too much rain may blight the garden with mould";
   - plague
    
2. Cause persistent trouble, distress, or misery to; afflict or torment continuously
   "The neighbourhood was blighted by crime";
   - plague

Sounds like: blite

Derived forms: blights, blighted, blighting

Type of: afflict, desolation, devastation, plant disease, smite

Encyclopedia: Blight, Ellen