Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Smitten with blight; blasted.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
blight . - adjective having suffered a
blight - adjective having caused to suffer a
blight - adjective
ruined ,spoiled
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective affected by blight; anything that mars or prevents growth or prosperity
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Examples
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They even want to cross I-405 into the Lair Hill Historic District, call it "blighted" and extend the campus south and build student housing with all kinds of taxpayer subsidies.
The affordable-Pearl-District-liquor-store tax break (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009
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The only neighborhood featuring a strip club that I would consider to be even approaching 'blighted' is Victory Drive in Columbus, GA.
Sound Politics: Why Is Seattle Such a Wuss About Strip Clubs? 2006
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This funding will support a continuum of housing strategies, from permanent supportive housing for people with disabilities who have been living on our streets, to educational programs that prepare families to become homeowners, to stepped-up enforcement of housing health and safety codes in blighted neighborhoods.
Portland 2010
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This funding will support a continuum of housing strategies, from permanent supportive housing for people with disabilities who have been living on our streets, to educational programs that prepare families to become homeowners, to stepped-up enforcement of housing health and safety codes in blighted neighborhoods.
Statement On The Mayor's Proposed Budget and Homelessness 2009
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This funding will support a continuum of housing strategies, from permanent supportive housing for people with disabilities who have been living on our streets, to educational programs that prepare families to become homeowners, to stepped-up enforcement of housing health and safety codes in blighted neighborhoods.
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This funding will support a continuum of housing strategies, from permanent supportive housing for people with disabilities who have been living on our streets, to educational programs that prepare families to become homeowners, to stepped-up enforcement of housing health and safety codes in blighted neighborhoods.
Statement On The Mayor's Proposed Budget and Homelessness 2009
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More officers on the ground may help curb antisocial behaviour on Saturday nights and in blighted housing estates, but this is a problem with several deep roots – poverty, truancy, failure of parental control, the lack of things to do and chaos and violence in the home.
We can't just leave it to the police – we must all tackle antisocial behaviour Henry Porter 2010
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This funding will support a continuum of housing strategies, from permanent supportive housing for people with disabilities who have been living on our streets, to educational programs that prepare families to become homeowners, to stepped-up enforcement of housing health and safety codes in blighted neighborhoods.
Homelessness 2010
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What they do in "blighted inner city neighborhoods" is displace the people who have historically lived there.
Forest City Covington and SunCal Early Favorites for Corporate Welfare IRBIE Awards 2007
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Essentially, Tax Increment Financing has historically been used as a way to generate new development in blighted areas, most often in the urban core.
Forest City Covington and SunCal Early Favorites for Corporate Welfare IRBIE Awards 2007
bilby commented on the word blighted
There were thirsting heirs of golden sieves that held not wine or water,
And had no names in traffic or more value there than toys:
There were blighted sons of wonder in the Valley of the Shadow,
Where they suffered and still wondered why their wonder made no noise.
- Edwin Arlington Robinson, 'The Valley of the Shadow'.
August 28, 2009
Kristianto2010 commented on the word blighted
For my days vanish like smoke; my bones burn like glowing embers. My heart is BLIGHTED and withered like grass; I forget to eat my food. In my distress I groan aloud and am reduced to skin and bones. Psalm 102:3-5.
March 10, 2011