blight – English verb conjugation

English verb forms of blight

Nominal Forms

Infinitive: to blight
Participle: blighted
Gerund: blighting

Cognates

-

Indicative

Present

Iblight
youblight
he;she;itblights
weblight
youblight
theyblight

Perfect

Ihave blighted
youhave blighted
he;she;ithas blighted
wehave blighted
youhave blighted
theyhave blighted

Past

Iblighted
youblighted
he;she;itblighted
weblighted
youblighted
theyblighted

Pluperfect

Ihad blighted
youhad blighted
he;she;ithad blighted
wehad blighted
youhad blighted
theyhad blighted

Future

Iwill blight
youwill blight
he;she;itwill blight
wewill blight
youwill blight
theywill blight

Future Perfect

Iwill have blighted
youwill have blighted
he;she;itwill have blighted
wewill have blighted
youwill have blighted
theywill have blighted

Subjunctive

Present

Iblight
youblight
he;she;itblight
weblight
youblight
theyblight

Perfect

Ihave blighted
youhave blighted
he;she;ithave blighted
wehave blighted
youhave blighted
theyhave blighted

Imperfect

Iblighted
youblighted
he;she;itblighted
weblighted
youblighted
theyblighted

Pluperfect

Ihad blighted
youhad blighted
he;she;ithad blighted
wehad blighted
youhad blighted
theyhad blighted

Conditional

Present

Iwould blight
youwould blight
he;she;itwould blight
wewould blight
youwould blight
theywould blight

Perfect

Iwould have blighted
youwould have blighted
he;she;itwould have blighted
wewould have blighted
youwould have blighted
theywould have blighted

Imperative

youblight
weLet's blight
youblight

Progressive (Continuous) Forms

Indicative

Present

Iam blighting
youare blighting
he;she;itis blighting
weare blighting
youare blighting
theyare blighting

Perfect

Ihave been blighting
youhave been blighting
he;she;ithas been blighting
wehave been blighting
youhave been blighting
theyhave been blighting

Past

Iwas blighting
youwere blighting
he;she;itwas blighting
wewere blighting
youwere blighting
theywere blighting

Pluperfect

Ihad been blighting
youhad been blighting
he;she;ithad been blighting
wehad been blighting
youhad been blighting
theyhad been blighting

Future

Iwill be blighting
youwill be blighting
he;she;itwill be blighting
wewill be blighting
youwill be blighting
theywill be blighting

Future Perfect

Iwill have been blighting
youwill have been blighting
he;she;itwill have been blighting
wewill have been blighting
youwill have been blighting
theywill have been blighting

Conditional

Present

Iwould be blighting
youwould be blighting
he;she;itwould be blighting
wewould be blighting
youwould be blighting
theywould be blighting

Perfect

Iwould have been blighting
youwould have been blighting
he;she;itwould have been blighting
wewould have been blighting
youwould have been blighting
theywould have been blighting

Other

Verbs conjugated like 'blight'

abandon, abduct, abear, aberr, abject, abord, abort, abound, abraid, abray, abrook, abscind, abscond, absist, absorb, abstain, abstract, accend, accent, accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)

Verbs similar to 'blight'

alight, belight, bright, flight, light, plight, slight, adight, aright, bedight,

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms

to put to death; to extinguish life.
annihilate, bag, bereave of life, bring down, bury, cack, croak, crush, dash, deactivate, dead, demolish, destroy, dispatch, dispose of, do, do in, dust, eliminate, end, eradicate, exterminate, finish, finish off, flatten, lay waste to, make a way with, mortify, neutralize, obliterate, off, pay off, pick off, polish off, punch someone's ticket, put an end to, put down, put out of one's misery, put six feet under, put to sleep, ravage, rub out, ruin, scotch, scupper, scuttle, send to eternity, send to hell, send to the grave, send to the great beyond, send to the next life, smash, smite, snuff, squash, stiff, take, take care of, take down, take out, terminate, terminate with extreme prejudice, kill, torpedo, waste, wipe out, wreck
damage
ruin, decay, spoil

Antonyms

damage
repair, recompense, reward, profit

Additional Information

Phrasal Verbs

Etymology

1. The etymology of the noun is uncertain; suggested derivations include the following:
2. * possibly related to Middle English blichening (“mildew or rust on grain, blight”), possibly related to Middle English bliken (“to gleam, shine; to turn pale”), from Old English blīcan (“to shine, sparkle”) (whence modern English blike (“(obsolete) to gleam, shine”); also compare Old Norse blikna (“to grow pallid”)), from Proto-West Germanic *blīkan (“to shine”), from Proto-Germanic *blīkaną (“to gleam, shine”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleyǵ- (“to shine”); or
3. * since sense 2.2 refers to a diseased condition of the skin, possibly from Middle English *bleighte, *bleȝte, from Old English blǣcþa (“leprosy”) (related to blǣċe (“an itching skin-disease”) and blǣċo (“leprosy; paleness”)), from Proto-West Germanic *blaik, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *blaikaz (“pale; white”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleyǵ- (“to shine”). If so, the word is a doublet of bleak.
4. The verb is derived from the noun. See: English 'blike', Proto-Germanic '*blīkaną'.

Sample Sentences

  • [...] are blown this way or that ? A hundred times in every week, some new most paltry exhibition of that narrow-minded and injurious Party Spirit, which is the Simoom of America, sickening and blighting everything of wholesome life within its reach, was forced upon my notice; but I never turned my back upon it with feelings of such deep disgust and measureless contempt, as when I crossed the [...] (American Notes for General Circulation)
  • These qualities are natural, I implicitly believe, to the whole people. That they are, however, sadly sapped and blighted in their growth among the mass; and that there are influences at work which endanger them still more, and give but little present promise of their healthy restoration; is a truth that ought to be [...] (American Notes for General Circulation)