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Definitions for Bane

[1] a person or thing that ruins or spoils: Gambling was the bane of his existence.
[2] a deadly poison (often used in combination, as in the names of poisonous plants): wolfsbane; henbane.
[3] death; destruction; ruin.
[4] Obsolete . that which causes death or destroys life: entrapped and drowned beneath the watery bane.
[5] a person or thing that causes misery or distress (esp in the phrase bane of one's life )
[6] something that causes death or destruction
[7] a fatal poison (in combination ) ratsbane
[8] archaic ruin or distress
[9] a Scot word for bone

Words related to Bane

ruination, undoing, disaster, downfall, torment, affliction, nuisance, curse, ruin, poison, venom, woe, blight, plague, burden, trouble, destruction, scourge, trial, calamity

Words nearby Bane

bandy, bandy legs, bandy-bandy, bandy-legged, bandywallop, bane, baneberry, baneful, banerjea, banff, banff national park

Origin of Bane

before 1000; Middle English; Old English bana slayer; cognate with Old Norse bani death, murderer, Old Frisian bona murder, Old Saxon bano murderer, Old High German bano slayer, bana death; akin to Old English benn, Gothic banja wound

Word origin for Bane

Old English bana ; related to Old Norse bani death, Old High German bano destruction, death

Synonyms for Bane

affliction, blight, burden, calamity, curse, despair, destruction, disaster, downfall, misery, nuisance, pest, plague, poison, ruin, ruination, scourge, torment, trial, trouble, undoing, venom, woe, bête noir, fatal attraction