Bane

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  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A cause of harm, ruin, or death.
  • noun. A source of persistent annoyance or exasperation.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. Fatal injury or ruin.
  • noun. A deadly poison.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A slayer or murderer; a worker of death, as a man or an animal.
  • noun. That which causes death or destroys life; especially, poison of a deadly quality.
  • noun. Hence Any fatal cause of mischief, injury, or destruction: as, vice is the bane of society.
  • noun. Ruin; destruction.
  • noun. Death: usually with such verbs as catch, get, take: as, to catch one's bane.
  • noun. A disease in sheep, more commonly called the rot.
  • noun. Scotch form of bone.
  • An obsolete form of bain.
  • An obsolete form of bain.
  • noun. An obsolete form of ban, especially in plural banes, now banns (which see).
  • To kill; poison.
  • To injure; ruin.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To be the bane of; to ruin.
  • noun. That which destroys life, esp. poison of a deadly quality.
  • noun. Destruction; death.
  • noun. Any cause of ruin, or lasting injury; harm; woe.
  • noun. A disease in sheep, commonly termed the rot.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A bone
  • noun. A cause of misery or death; an affliction or curse
  • noun. A killer, murderer, slayer
  • noun. Poison, especially any of several poisonous plants
  • verb. To kill, especially by poison; to be the poison of.
  • verb. To be the bane of.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. something causing misery or death
  • Word Usage
    "Consider This: Unless people are aware of its Hawaiian origins, this name will evoke the word bane and all its negative associations."
    Antonyms
    Words with the opposite meaning
    boon  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Alane  Aquitaine  Ayn  Bahrain  Biscayne  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    scourge  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    variant
    rot