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was blighted
verb
To affect with blight; to blast; to prevent the growth and fertility of.
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But their marriage was blighted by tragedy.
Chechnya was blighted by it.
That meeting was blighted by the Beslan tragedy.
A productive relationship with our principal funder was blighted overnight.
He writes: "It was blighted from the start.
The optimism of the risanamento was blighted by the onset of World War I.
"It was blighted; there was a high crime rate," she said.
He commented that his adolescence was blighted only by his parents' divorce.
Then, in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Smith's life was blighted by tragedy.
About 15 years ago, it was blighted, its Art Deco hotels faded and neglected.
The prison was blighted by institutional racism, and by a failure to tackle overt racism.
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