Blight vs Affliction - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between blight and affliction

is that blight is any of many plant diseases causing damage to, or the death of, leaves, fruit or other parts while affliction is a state of pain, suffering, distress or agony.

As a verb blight

is to affect with blight; to blast; to prevent the growth and fertility of.

blight

English

Noun

(wikipedia blight)

any of many plant diseases causing damage to, or the death of, leaves, fruit or other parts

the bacterium, virus or fungus that causes such a condition

(by extension) anything that impedes growth or development or spoils any other aspect of life

Derived terms

* alder blight * American blight * aphis-blight * apple blight * bean blight * beet blight * blight bird * blight canker * blight in the eye * blight-beetle * blighted * blighty * blister blight * cane blight * celery blight * chestnut blight * coffee blight * collar blight * early blight * fire blight, fireblight * frictional blight * functional blight * fusarium ear blight, fusarium head blight * green blight * halo blight * head blight * kernel blight * late blight * leaf blight * moth blight * needle blight * northern corn-leaf blight, northern leaf blight * oak blight * peach blight * pear blight * pine blight * planning blight * potato blight * rim blight * sandy blight * seedling blight * southern blight * Sphaeropsis blight * spinach blight * spur blight * stamen blight * stem blight * stripe blight * thread blight * tomato blight * twig blight * urban blight * walnut blight

Verb

(en verb)

To affect with blight; to blast; to prevent the growth and fertility of.

* Woodward

[This vapour] blasts vegetables, blights corn and fruit, and is sometimes injurious even to man.

To suffer blight.

This vine never blights .

to spoil or ruin (something)

Those obscene tattoos are going to blight your job prospects.

* Byron

seared in heart and lone and blighted

Derived terms

* blighter * blighting * blightingly

References

affliction

English

Noun

(en noun)

A state of pain, suffering, distress or agony.

Something which causes pain, suffering, distress or agony.

*1913 ,

*:She wore a man's long ulster (not as if it were an affliction , but as if it were very comfortable and belonged to her; carried it like a young soldier) [...]