blight

brûlure

Maladie qui abîme ou détruit rapidement les feuilles, les fleurs ou d’autres parties d’une plante.

En anglais simple : A plant disease that quickly damages or kills leaves, flowers, or other parts.

• Blight destroyed the tomato plants.
• The farmer checked the leaves for signs of blight.
• Wet weather helped the blight spread through the crop.

Expressions courantes : potato blight, tomato blight, blight on something

fléau

Chose qui nuit gravement à un lieu, une activité ou un aspect de la vie.

En anglais simple : Something that badly harms a place, activity, or part of life.

• The factory is a blight on the landscape.
• Poverty remains a blight on the community.
• He called corruption the greatest blight on their future.

Comment l'utiliser : a blight on something (Corruption is a blight on public life.)

Synonymes : curse, scourge

Expressions courantes : blight on something, a terrible blight

dégradation urbaine

Mauvais état d’un quartier aux bâtiments abîmés ou vides, ou quartier dans cet état.

En anglais simple : The poor, ugly condition of a town area with damaged or empty buildings, or an area like this.

• Urban blight has spread across the district.
• Empty shops added to the blight in the town center.
• The council hopes new housing will reduce blight.

Synonymes : urban decay

Expressions courantes : urban blight, areas of blight, blight in something

temps humide et couvert

Temps couvert avec beaucoup d’humidité dans l’air.

En anglais simple : Cloudy weather with a lot of water in the air.

• A damp blight hung over the fields.
• The old diary mentions days of blight and rain.
• They blamed the lingering blight for the wet harvest.

Expressions courantes : humid blight, blight weather

gâcher, ruiner

Nuire gravement à la vie, aux espoirs ou aux chances de réussite de quelqu’un.

En anglais simple : To seriously harm someone’s life, hopes, or chances of success.

• The injury blighted his career.
• Poverty has blighted many lives in this town.
• One mistake should not blight your whole future.

Synonymes : ruin, spoil, damage

Expressions courantes : blight someone’s life, blight someone’s prospects, blight the future

flétrir, ravager

Endommager ou faire mourir une plante par une maladie.

En anglais simple : To damage or kill a plant through disease.

• The fungus can blight young plants.
• Disease blighted the potato crop last year.
• Several trees were blighted during the wet summer.

Synonymes : infect, damage

Expressions courantes : blight the crops, blight a plant

se flétrir

Pour une plante, être atteinte d’une maladie qui abîme et fait mourir certaines parties.

En anglais simple : For a plant to become damaged by a disease that kills its parts.

• These vines rarely blight.
• The tomatoes blighted during the damp summer.
• Some potato varieties blight more easily than others.

Expressions courantes : plants blight easily, vines blight quickly