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Blight vs Rot - What's the difference?

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In transitive terms the difference between blight and rot

is that blight is to spoil or ruin (something while rot is to expose, as flax, to a process of maceration, etc., for the purpose of separating the fiber; to ret.

In intransitive terms the difference between blight and rot

is that blight is to suffer blight while rot is to deteriorate in any way.

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

    rot

    English

    Verb

    (rott)
  • To suffer decomposition due to biological action, especially by fungi or bacteria.
  • * Alexander Pope
    • Fixed like a plant on his peculiar spot, / To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot .
  • To decline in function or utility.
  • To deteriorate in any way.
    • I hope they all rot in prison for what they've done.
  • * Macaulay
    • Four of the sufferers were left to rot in irons.
  • * Thackeray
    • Rot , poor bachelor, in your club.
  • To make putrid; to cause to be wholly or partially decomposed by natural processes.
    • to rot vegetable fiber
  • To expose, as flax, to a process of maceration, etc., for the purpose of separating the fiber; to ret.

    • Derived terms

    * potter's rot

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The process of becoming rotten; putrefaction.
  • Any of several diseases in which breakdown of tissue occurs.
  • * Milton
    • His cattle must of rot and murrain die.
  • Verbal nonsense.

    • Synonyms

    * (nonsense) See also

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