blight

• Again, the blight is always most persistent under the shade of trees or tall hedges, or where the bine is over luxuriant, when owing to the exclusion of light and air the plant is unable to elaborate its natural safeguard. —  Grain and Chaff from an English Manor
• Continuing its crackdown on blight, the Kenner City Council Thursday ordered two blighted houses in northwest Kenner demolished.
• A major problem then was that the cause of potato blight, and how it might be treated, would not be scientifically understood until many years later. —  Politics.ie - 3,4,5,6,7,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,27,28,29,30,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,41,42,48,49,50,52
• Should that be destroyed by blight, a parasite, or some insect running rampant because perhaps its predators in turn have been destroyed, then the world - at least the human world - would face catastrophic starvation.
• In Dragon Age Origins you play as a Grey Warden with the goal of saving the world from an evil force known as the blight.

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