Definition of "blighting" [blight•ing]

• Present participle of blight. (verb)

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• "The word blighting here, noted as unsuitable by Rossetti, is cancelled in the Bodleian manuscript (Locock)."
• "By the application of this principle, she had extinguished her brother-in-law's passion for Janet Merryweather, and she hoped that it would prove equally effective in blighting her son's incipient fancy for Molly."
• "'profligate,' 'brutal,' 'godless,' 'blighting' -- does not each involve research, investigation, comparison, analysis, deliberation, a heavy tax upon the intellectual resources of the church if any result worth having is to be obtained?"