Blight: alternatives and connections

The act of increasing by natural growth; esp. the increase of organic bodies by the internal accession of parts; organic growth.

a drug that is designed to prevent the growth of blood vessels that nourish tumors

Hence, to affect with some sudden violence, plague, calamity, or blighting influence, which destroys or causes to fail; to visit with…

A blast; destruction by a blast, or by some pernicious cause.

To obstruct so as to prevent passage or progress; to prevent passage from, through, or into, by obstructing the way; -- used both of p…

Formerly, any malignant growth, esp. one attended with great pain and ulceration, with cachexia and progressive emaciation. It was so…

Growing upward, as distinguished from a lateral growth; -- applied to the growth of corals.

To deprive of horns; to prevent the growth of the horns of (cattle) by burning their ends soon after they start. See Dishorn.

To prevent by fear; hence, to hinder or prevent from action by fear of consequences, or difficulty, risk, etc.

A pipe for leading combustible gases downward from the top of the blast furnace to the hot-blast stoves, boilers, etc., where they are…

Fagots, boughs, or loose materials of any kind, laid on the bottom of the hold for the cargo to rest upon to prevent injury by water,…

steady growth in the productive capacity of the economy (and so a growth of national income)

Hence; Richness; fertility; fruitfulness.

One who, or that which, fattens; that which gives fatness or fertility.

The power of bringing forth in abundance; fertility; richness of invention; as, the fecundity of God's creative power.

Fertility.

The state or quality of being fertile or fruitful; fruitfulness; productiveness; fecundity; richness; abundance of resources; fertile…

The process of growing; the gradual increase of an animal or a vegetable body; the development from a seed, germ, or root, to full siz…