What is another word for blights?

Pronunciation: [blˈa͡ɪts] (IPA)

Blights are destructive factors that can damage plants, crops, and landscapes. Synonyms for blights include plagues, scourges, curses, parasites, diseases, infestations, blisters, mold, and rot. Plagues and scourges refer to widespread and devastating blights that can affect entire regions or populations. Curses and parasites imply a more supernatural or invasive force that may cause blights. Diseases and infestations are more technical terms for specific types of blights that affect living organisms. Blisters, mold, and rot refer to physical manifestations of blights that can harm plants and other organic matter. These synonyms all describe different aspects of blights and can be used interchangeably depending on the context.

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Famous quotes with Blights

  • I don't believe in evil, I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of horror: the plagues and the blights and the ants and the maggots.
    Isak Dinesen
  • Thus suicidal selfishness, that blights The fairest feelings of the opening heart, Is destined to decay, whilst from the soil Shall spring all virtue, all delight, all love, And judgment cease to wage unnatural war With passion's unsubduable array.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • I don't believe in evil, I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of horror: the plagues and the blights and the ants and the maggots.
    Karen Blixen

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