Blight and Extinction

Blight

Blight noun - Something that spoils the appearance or completeness of a thing.

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Extinction and blight are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Extinction" instead a noun "Blight".

Nearby Words: blighted, blighter, blighting, blighty

Extinction noun - The state or fact of being rendered nonexistent, physically unsound, or useless.

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Blight and extinction are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Blight" instead a noun "Extinction".

Nearby Word: extinct

human	human blight	human extinction
complete	complete blight	complete extinction
entire	entire blight	entire extinction
massive	massive blight	massive extinction
Other adjectives: bad, potential, mysterious, global.

Alternatively, the characters may already live there because it's the only habitable place left (in particularly dark versions, it may be on its last legs, with humanity doomed to extinction unless the blight can be undone).

Source: Last Fertile Region
Blight traps them all in the rapidly wasting virtual planet, bringing the Apocalypse Class up to total extinction and closer to physical annihilation before destroying them all (not even Captain Planet can save them)... or so Blight thinks.

Source: Apocalypse Wow
The Sixth Extinction (2014) — A military research station in Utah suddenly experienced a blight, killing any living thing within 50 square miles.

Source: Literature / Sigma Force

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