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Blighting vs Baleful - What's the difference?

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Blighting is a related term of baleful.


As a verb blighting

is .

As a noun blighting

is the act by which something is blighted.

As an adjective baleful is

portending evil; ominous.

blighting

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is blighted.
  • * (Mark Twain)
    • They showed signs of the blightings and blastings of time, in their outward aspect, but they were young within; young and cheerful, and ready to talk

    baleful

    English

    Alternative forms

    * balefull (archaic)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Portending evil; ominous.
  • * 1674 -- John Milton: )
    • round he throws his baleful eyes, that witnessed huge affliction and dismay.
  • * 1873 ,
    • The street-lamps burn amid the baleful glooms,
    Amidst the soundless solitudes immense
    Of ranged mansions dark and still as tombs.
  • Miserable, wretched, distressed, suffering.