| 词汇 | blighting |
| 释义 | blighting present participle ofblight blight verb[ T ] uk /blaɪt/ us /blaɪt/ to spoil something: 破坏；妨害 A broken leg blighted her chances of winning the championship.腿骨折使她失去了获得冠军的机会。 Compare plagueverb Damaging and spoiling adulterant adulterate adulterated adulteration applecart butcher degrade drive a wedge between someoneidiom dry rot eat eat away at something erode foul put something out of jointidiom queer rain on someone's paradeidiom rampage ravage seismic wreck Examples of blightingblighting In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. Do we really wish to risk complicating and possibly blighting the final years of our lives by allowing genetic discrimination? Speculation unrestrained and licentious threw its blighting sirocco over the green pastures of knowledge, and prejudice and mysticism involved them in their exhalations. This disease caused chlorosis followed by blighting of the leaves. The conclusion posits a judgement of the owners of the estates within the context of the criticisms that were reportedly blighting landlord tenant relations at the time. We do not know what the effect of blighting a generation will be when that generation reaches the age of 30 to 40. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 This represented a flagrant waste of resources and had the effect of blighting established industrial areas. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Fly-tipping remains a major scourge, blighting our landscape and people's lives. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The dead hand of security precautions is blighting a dozen prisons. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That official would be blighting that area on his own authority and not on the authority of the council whose servant he is. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The interests of those suffering for many years in the area from blighting uncertainty would be shabbily served by postponing the inquiry. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The blighting of hundreds of thousands of teenagers' lives will not be lightly forgotten. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not know how it is possible to separate blitzing and blighting. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 A bit of common sense and understanding could have resolved the matter at an early stage, and avoided the unnecessary blighting of lives. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That kind of blighting will not take place in future at the structure plan stage. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is not our practice to publish such reports because of the blighting of property and general uncertainty which could be caused. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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