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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Blight·ing, a. Causing blight.
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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Blight v. t. [imp. & p. p. Blighted; p. pr. & vb. n. Blighting.]
 1. To affect with blight; to blast; to prevent the growth and fertility of.
    [This vapor] blasts vegetables, blights corn and fruit, and is sometimes injurious even to man.   --Woodward.
 2. Hence: To destroy the happiness of; to ruin; to mar essentially; to frustrate; as, to blight one's prospects.
    Seared in heart and lone and blighted.   --Byron.