Plight vs. Blight — What's the Difference?

A situation, especially a bad or unfortunate one.

Blight refers to a specific symptom affecting plants in response to infection by a pathogenic organism.

A solemn pledge, as of faith.

Any of numerous plant diseases resulting in sudden conspicuous wilting and dying of affected parts, especially young, growing tissues.

To promise or bind by a solemn pledge, especially to betroth.

The condition or causative agent, such as a bacterium, fungus, or virus, that results in blight.

To give or pledge (one's word or oath, for example).

An agent or action that harms or ruins the value or success of something

A dire or unfortunate situation.

A condition or result of harmful or ruinous action

A (neutral) condition or state.

To cause (a plant, for example) to undergo blight.

(obsolete) Good health.

To have a deleterious effect on; ruin.

Responsibility for ensuing consequences; risk; danger; peril.

To suffer blight.

An instance of danger or peril; a dangerous moment or situation.

(plant disease) A rapid and complete chlorosis, browning, then death of plant tissues such as leaves, branches, twigs, or floral organs.

Blame; culpability; fault; wrong-doing; sin; crime.

The bacterium, virus or fungus that causes such a condition.

One's office; duty; charge.

(by extension) Anything that impedes growth or development or spoils any other aspect of life.

(archaic) That which is exposed to risk; that which is plighted or pledged; security; a gage; a pledge.

(transitive) To affect with blight; to blast; to prevent the growth and fertility of.

(obsolete) A network; a plait; a fold; rarely a garment.

(intransitive) To suffer blight.

To expose to risk; to pledge.

(transitive) To spoil, ruin, or destroy (something).

(transitive) Specifically, to pledge (one's troth etc.) as part of a marriage ceremony.

To affect with blight; to blast; to prevent the growth and fertility of.

(reflexive) To promise (oneself) to someone, or to do something.

Hence: To destroy the happiness of; to ruin; to mar essentially; to frustrate; as, to blight one's prospects.

(obsolete) To weave; to braid; to fold; to plait.

To be affected by blight; to blast; as, this vine never blights.

To weave; to braid; to fold; to plait.

Mildew; decay; anything nipping or blasting; - applied as a general name to various injuries or diseases of plants, causing the whole or a part to wither, whether occasioned by insects, fungi, or atmospheric influences.

To pledge; to give as a pledge for the performance of some act; as, to plight faith, honor, word; - never applied to property or goods.

The act of blighting, or the state of being blighted; a withering or mildewing, or a stoppage of growth in the whole or a part of a plant, etc.

To promise; to engage; to betroth.

That which frustrates one's plans or withers one's hopes; that which impairs or destroys.

A network; a plait; a fold; rarely a garment.

A downy species of aphis, or plant louse, destructive to fruit trees, infesting both the roots and branches; - also applied to several other injurious insects.

That which is exposed to risk; that which is plighted or pledged; security; a gage; a pledge.

A rashlike eruption on the human skin.

Condition; state; - risk, or exposure to danger, often being implied; as, a luckless plight.

A state or condition being blighted

A situation from which extrication is difficult especially an unpleasant or trying one;

Any plant disease resulting in withering without rotting

A solemn pledge of fidelity

Cause to suffer a blight;

Give to in marriage

Promise solemnly and formally;