Blight vs Vitiate - What's the difference?
blight | vitiate |
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
To affect with blight; to blast; to prevent the growth and fertility of.
* Woodward
To suffer blight.
to spoil or ruin (something)
* Byron
to spoil, make faulty; to reduce the value, quality, or effectiveness of something
*1851 ,
* 1997': ‘Mr Rose,’ says the Physician, ‘this man was brought to us from Russia. Precisely such a case of '''vitiated judgment as I describe at length in my Treatise on Madness. Mayhap you have read it?’ — Andrew Miller, ''Ingenious Pain
to debase or morally corrupt
*1890 , Leo Tolstoy,
*:The robber does not intentionally vitiate people, but the governments, to accomplish their ends, vitiate whole generations from childhood to manhood with false religions and patriotic instruction.
(archaic) to violate, to rape
* 1965': ‘Crush the cockatrice,’ he groaned, from his death-cell. ‘I am dead in law’ – but of the girl he denied that he had ‘attempted to '''vitiate her at Nine years old’; for ‘upon the word of a dying man, both her Eyes did see, and her Hands did act in all that was done’. — John Fowles, ''The Magus
to make something ineffective, to invalidate
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In lang=en terms the difference between blight and vitiate
is that blight is to spoil or ruin (something) while vitiate is to make something ineffective, to invalidate.As verbs the difference between blight and vitiate
is that blight is to affect with blight; to blast; to prevent the growth and fertility of while vitiate is to spoil, make faulty; to reduce the value, quality, or effectiveness of something.As a noun blight
is any of many plant diseases causing damage to, or the death of, leaves, fruit or other parts.blight
English
Noun
(wikipedia blight)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 blightVerb
(en verb)- [This vapour] blasts vegetables, blights corn and fruit, and is sometimes injurious even to man.
- This vine never blights .
- Those obscene tattoos are going to blight your job prospects.
- seared in heart and lone and blighted
Derived terms
* blighter * blighting * blightinglyReferences
vitiate
English
Verb
(vitiat)- There was excellent blood in his veins—royal stuff; though sadly vitiated , I fear, by the cannibal propensity he nourished in his untutored youth.