blight

• Meaning: [verb] to cause something to wither; to have harmful effects on something
• NOTE: original meaning as noun = disease / condition that makes a plant wither; an extremely adverse environmental condition; something that impairs growth / hope / progress / prosperity
• In Hong Kong slang: 玩謝， 打殘， 玩死
  
• In decent Chinese: 破壞淨盡， 消磨殆盡， 毀掉
  
• Where we first met: Edinburgh Evening News - ' ... gang warfare was blighting their estate ...'