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English
Etymology
From blight + -ed.
Pronunciation
Adjective
blighted (comparative more blighted, superlative most blighted)
- Having caused to suffer a blight.
- Having suffered a blight.
- Antonym: unblighted
- Ruined, spoiled.
- Antonym: unblighted
1814, Lord Byron, “Canto I”, in The Corsair, a Tale, London: Thomas Davison, , for John Murray, , →OCLC, stanza X, page 13, lines 246–247:Mark—how that that lone and blighted bosom sears / The scathing thought of execrated years!
Derived terms
Verb
blighted
- simple past and past participle of blight
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