blight — You can refer to something as a blight when it causes great difficulties, and damages or spoils other things.
dip — to plunge (something, as a cloth or sponge) temporarily into a liquid, so as to moisten it, dye it, or cause it to take up some of the liquid: He dipped the brush into the paint bucket.
drop — a small quantity of liquid that falls or is produced in a more or less spherical mass; a liquid globule.
freeze — to become hardened into ice or into a solid body; change from the liquid to the solid state by loss of heat.
frigidity — the state or condition of being frigid.