BLIGHTING Synonyms

• (sometimes followed by `to') causing harm or injury

• designed or tending to discredit, especially without positive or helpful suggestions

• impairing the strength and vitality

• making light of

• wreaking or capable of wreaking complete destruction

• physically or spiritually devastating; often used in combination

• preventing movement

• preventing movement

• destruction achieved by causing something to be wrecked or ruined

• the process of becoming spoiled

• the act of spoiling something by causing damage to it

• an act of hindering someone's plans or efforts

• preventing realization or attainment of a desire

• the event of a structure being completely demolished and leveled

• destruction achieved by causing something to be wrecked or ruined

• do away with, cause the destruction or undoing of

• destroy completely; damage irreparably

• defeat soundly and humiliatingly

• put (an animal) to death

• make worse or less effective

• make imperfect

• a mark or flaw that spoils the appearance of something (especially on a person's body)

• the month following February and preceding April

• make imperfect

• destroy or injure severely

• hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of

• block passage through

• shut out from view or get in the way so as to hide from sight

• a deliberate act of destruction or disruption in which equipment is damaged

• destroy property or hinder normal operations

• the state of being contaminated

• place under suspicion or cast doubt upon

• contaminate with a disease or microorganism

• destroy property or hinder normal operations

• hollow out as if making a cave or opening

• a serious (sometimes fatal) infection of rodents caused by Yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans by the bite of a flea that has bitten an infected animal

• any epidemic disease with a high death rate

• a swarm of insects that attack plants

• any large scale calamity (especially when thought to be sent by God)

• an annoyance

• cause to suffer a blight

• annoy continually or chronically