Blight and Fault

Blight

Blight noun - Something that spoils the appearance or completeness of a thing.
Usage example: the expanding urban sprawl is a blight on the countryside

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

Nearby Words: blighted, blighter, blighting, blighty

Fault

Fault noun - Something that spoils the appearance or completeness of a thing.
Usage example: the minor faults in the leather are entirely natural and are what gives it a look different from vinyl

Blight and fault are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Blight" instead a noun "Fault".

How words are described

full full blight full fault
complete complete blight complete fault
original original blight original fault
single single blight single fault
Other adjectives: powerful, real, bad, potential, social, new, past, radioactive.

Common collocations

life blight life fault life

Both words in one sentence

  • Never My Fault It's the Wardens' fault because them raising their own army to fight the Blight he wasn't fighting meant it was somehow their fault he stretched his forces too thin and needed the money.
  • Video Game / Dragon Age II While Gamlen is at fault for losing the estate and money, Leandra and her children are living in his hovel, and wouldn't have even set foot in Kirkwall had it not been for the Blight.
  • Useful Notes / United Nations The only real blight on his record was his agreement to withdraw the UN peacekeeping forces from the Sinai in the leadup to the Six-Day War; however, that wasn't entirely his fault, and in any case that entire war was an embarrassing farce for nearly everyone involved.
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