eyesores, scourge, nuisances, infestation, powdery mildew, ragwort, weeds, pests, unsightliness, canker, hogweed, downy mildew, urban renewal, anthracnose, frogeye, phytophthora infestans, sprawl, rot, cankerworms, leaf scorch, sclerotinia, late blight, gentrification, plague, overdevelopment, absentee landlord, derelict, arundo, knotweed, root rot, mildews, webworms, tomato blight, crabgrass, pythium, purple loosestrife, dutch elm disease, dutch elm, vagrants, bindweed, graffiti, apple maggot, urban sprawl, ugliness, decay, potato blight, vagrancy, loosestrife, overgrowth, witchweed, elms, buckthorn, phytophthora, tussock moth, nutsedge, revitalization, woolly adelgid, budworm, vermin, tansy ragwort, parthenium, asian longhorned beetle, dry rot, dandelions, swallow wort, chlorosis, woodworm, sericea lespedeza, rust fungus, litter, phragmites, scotch thistle, oxalis, multiflora rose, menace, sunscald, guinea worm disease, verticillium, tomato hornworm, fall webworm, striga, scotch broom, redevelopment, stinkweed, stink bug, dilapidation, horse chestnut, buffel grass, encroachment, fireweed, spartina, stem canker, disrepair, leaf beetle, pollarding, mealybug, clubroot, carbuncle, panhandling, leaf blight, goutweed, pestilence, sickness, affliction, disaster, havoc, calamity, destitution, indigestion, malady, misfortune, peril, blights, desolation, devastation, famine, infirmity, pest, causative, commonest, enteric, rust, typhoid, wilt, bubonic, fungus, gonococcal, nosocomial, parasitic, potato, staphylococcal, tuber, zoonotic, causing, cholera, commensal, fungal, gall

alder blight, apple blight, apple canker, bean blight, beet blight, blister blight, cane blight, chestnut-bark disease, chestnut blight, chestnut canker, coffee blight, collar blight, halo blight, halo spot, head blight, late blight, leaf blight, peach blight, potato blight, potato disease, potato mildew, potato mold, potato murrain, rim blight, spinach blight, spur blight, stem blight, stripe blight, thread blight, tomato blight, tomato yellows, twig blight, walnut blight

., bean blight, blasting, blighted, blight canker, coffee blight, epiphytotic, halo blight, halo spot, head blight, late blight, leaf blight, phytophthora infestans, plague, potato blight, potato disease, potato mildew, potato mold, potato murrain, ruinous, spoilt, stem blight, the great calamity, the great hunger, the great starvation, the irish famine

afflict, desolation, devastation, plant disease, ruin, smite

plague