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botany
: affected with blight (see blight entry 1 sense 1)
a blighted plant
This pathogen causes blighted flowers, heavy leaf spotting, and the death of young, green shoots.—
Elsie Cox
Elsie Cox2
: in a badly damaged or deteriorated condition
a blighted landscape
a blighted city
… the physicians who work here in some of the nation's most blighted neighborhoods …—Malcolm Gladwell
Malcolm Gladwell3
: made ineffectual : defeated or frustrated
blighted dreams
At every point we are confronted with shattered promises, blighted hopes, irreconcilable dilemmas, good intentions gone astray …—Gertrude Himmelfarb
Gertrude HimmelfarbExamples of blighted in a Sentence
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Reliable energy is essential to deliver massive housing development on Staten Island’s North Shore, remake the blighted industrial Willets Point area, and transform the Brooklyn Marine Terminal.
—Linda Baran, New York Daily News, 3 Aug. 2025
Next door to the blighted property sits another home, which the city restored with plexiglass using the Proposal N plan.
—Dana Afana, Freep.com, 18 July 2025
In Ohio, a city can define a blighted area as a Community Reinvestment Area, also known as a CRA, to encourage revitalization of that area.
—Bebe Hodges, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025
In some ways, Popoff feels almost as if he and other business owners who have invested in redoing buildings in blighted areas are being punished for their efforts.
—Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 19 June 2025
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Linda Baran, New York Daily News, 3 Aug. 2025
Next door to the blighted property sits another home, which the city restored with plexiglass using the Proposal N plan.
—Dana Afana, Freep.com, 18 July 2025
In Ohio, a city can define a blighted area as a Community Reinvestment Area, also known as a CRA, to encourage revitalization of that area.
—Bebe Hodges, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025
In some ways, Popoff feels almost as if he and other business owners who have invested in redoing buildings in blighted areas are being punished for their efforts.
—Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 19 June 2025
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“Blighted.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/blighted. Accessed 14 Aug. 2025.
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