blighted

blighted
    adj 1: affected by blight; anything that mars or prevents growth
           or prosperity; "a blighted rose"; "blighted urban
           districts" [syn: {blighted}, {spoilt}]
    

Blight \Blight\ (bl[imac]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Blighted}; p.
   pr. & vb. n. {Blighting}.] [Perh. contr. from AS.
   bl[imac]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.
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            [This vapor] blasts vegetables, blights corn and
            fruit, and is sometimes injurious even to man.
                                                  --Woodward.
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   2. Hence: To destroy the happiness of; to ruin; to mar
      essentially; to frustrate; as, to blight one's prospects.
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            Seared in heart and lone and blighted. --Byron.
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83 Moby Thesaurus words for "blighted":
      absolute, ausgespielt, baffled, balked, bankrupt, betrayed, bilked,
      blasted, blessed, blown, botched, broken, chapfallen, confounded,
      crestfallen, crossed, crushed, cursed, cussed, damnable, dashed,
      defeated, desolated, despoiled, destroyed, devastated,
      disappointed, dished, disillusioned, dissatisfied, done for,
      done in, down-and-out, downright, execrable, fallen, finished,
      flyblown, foiled, frowsty, frowsy, frowzy, frustrated, fusty,
      gone to pot, gross, ill done-by, ill-served, in ruins, infernal,
      irremediable, kaput, let down, maggoty, marred, mildewed,
      moldering, moldy, moth-eaten, musty, out of countenance,
      out-and-out, overthrown, rank, ravaged, regretful, ruined, ruinous,
      smutted, smutty, sorely disappointed, soured, spoiled, spoilt,
      straight-out, thwarted, undone, unmitigated, wasted, weevily,
      worm-eaten, wormy, wrecked