Blight vs Wreck - What's the difference?

Blight is a synonym of wreck.

As nouns the difference between blight and wreck

is that blight is any of many plant diseases causing damage to, or the death of, leaves, fruit or other parts while wreck is something or someone that has been ruined.

As verbs the difference between blight and wreck

is that blight is to affect with blight; to blast; to prevent the growth and fertility of while wreck is to destroy violently; to cause severe damage to something, to a point where it no longer works, or is useless.

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

wreck

English

Noun

(en noun)

Something or someone that has been ruined.

He was an emotional wreck after the death of his wife.

The remains of something that has been severely damaged or worn down.

* Cowper

To the fair haven of my native home, / The wreck of what I was, fatigued I come.

An event in which something is damaged through collision.

* Addison

the wreck of matter and the crush of worlds

* Spenser

Hard and obstinate / As is a rock amidst the raging floods, / 'Gainst which a ship, of succour desolate, / Doth suffer wreck , both of herself and goods.

* J. R. Green

Its intellectual life was thus able to go on amidst the wreck of its political life.

(legal) Goods, etc. cast ashore by the sea after a shipwreck.

(Bouvier)

Synonyms

* crash * ruins

Derived terms

* shipwreck

Verb

(en verb)

To destroy violently; to cause severe damage to something, to a point where it no longer works, or is useless.

He wrecked the car in a collision.

That adulterous hussy wrecked my marriage!

* Shakespeare

Supposing that they saw the king's ship wrecked .

To ruin or dilapidate.

(Australia) To dismantle wrecked vehicles or other objects, to reclaim any useful parts.

To involve in a wreck; hence, to cause to suffer ruin; to balk of success, and bring disaster on.

* Daniel

Weak and envied, if they should conspire, / They wreck themselves.

Synonyms

* See also

Antonyms

* build * construct * make * produce

Derived terms

* bewreck * wrecker * wreckage