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blighted

adj
/ˈblaɪtɪd/US

Etymology

From blight + -ed.

  1. inherited from *bʰleyǵ-✻ — “to shine”
  2. inherited from *blaikaz✻ — “pale; white”
  3. inherited from *blaik✻
  4. inherited from blǣcþa — “leprosy”
  5. inherited from *bleighte✻
  6. suffixed as blighted — “blight + -ed”

Definitions

  1. Having caused to suffer a blight.

  2. Having suffered a blight.

    • The Glenbrook Community Center is in disrepair and has been closed for a number of years, which means it is the exact kind of dilapidated and blighted building CAVE People will do everything to protect.

  3. Ruined, spoiled.

    • Mark—how that that lone and blighted bosom sears / The scathing thought of execrated years!
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. simple past and past participle of blight

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA