blighted

It is a huge boost for Wood, one of the fastest bowlers to ever play for England, albeit in a 37-Test career that has been blighted by injuries.

His latter years were blighted by maladies, including heart problems, Parkinson’s disease, and memory and hearing loss.

To outsiders, these appeared to be blighted neighborhoods full of people permanently stuck at the bottom.

In a leafy suburb of south-east London, locals hope a simple solution is in sight to shut down noisy, dangerous, car racing that has blighted their lives for years.

Despite being from the Tigray region, which was blighted by a two-year civil war, he contributed when he could to the dam's construction ever since the plans were first announced in 2011.