Synonyms for blighted
blight·ed

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1. blighted, spoiltadjective

   affected by blight; anything that mars or prevents growth or prosperity

   "a blighted rose"; "blighted urban districts"

   Synonyms:
   spoiled, bad, spoilt

   Antonyms:
   preserved

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1. List of paraphrases for "blighted":

   differenced, ruined, ravaged, debruised, plagued

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1. Anika Goss:

   It's not just housing and commercial redevelopment, but also infrastructure redevelopment, these are places that have been blighted for many, many years — where the infrastructure is extraordinarily poor. You can see vulnerable lighting, poor streetscapes, poor sidewalks — all the things that make up a neighborhood of value.

2. Riley Rogers:

   It helps us in regards to bringing our community back, it helps us in terms of safety of the neighbors around these blighted homes. It helps us to make the school area safe. It’s just a win-win situation for us.

3. John W. Gardner:

   For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.

4. Von Spakovsky:

   They are using federal housing money intended to improve the bad housing of poor Americans as the lever to force compliance with these new regulations, but that money is most needed in blighted, inner city urban neighborhoods, where there are a large number of African Americans. This federal utopian vision will divert that needed federal money into suburbs where it is not needed, leaving poor Americans living in substandard, terrible housing.

5. Rhode Island:

   For a long time, we here in New England have been spared the full impact of methamphetamine, a drug that has blighted lives in so many other communities across the country, those days, I regret to say, are over, with meth increasingly making its presence felt in Rhode Island and across the Northeast.