unblight
English
Etymology
un- + blight
Verb
unblight (third-person singular simple present unblights, present participle unblighting, simple past and past participle unblighted)
- (transitive) To undo the blighting of; to cure or ameliorate.
- 1976, Richard Howard Stafford Crossman, The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister: 1964-1966 (page 404)
- Despite their criticism I can't help feeling very pleased with this device for using planning permissions not to blight but to unblight areas.
- 1983, National Geographic (volume 164, page 279)
- […] the preservationist who sees the restoration of such cultural assets as a way to unblight and revitalize our decaying cities.
- 1992, Richard Foerster, Sudden Harbor: Poems (page 42)
- How to unblight the apple
- 1976, Richard Howard Stafford Crossman, The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister: 1964-1966 (page 404)