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Bane

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Noun

1. bane, curse, nemesis, scourge

something causing misery or death

Example Sentences:
'the bane of my life'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Bane

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noun
1. 
a person or thing that causes misery or distress (esp in the phrase bane of one's life)
2. 
something that causes death or destruction
3. 
a. 
a fatal poison
b. 
(in combination)
ratsbane
4. archaic
ruin or distress
noun
a Scot word for bone

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Bane

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noun
1.  OLD-FASHIONED, Poetic
deadly harm; ruin; death
2. 
the cause of distress, death, or ruin
3. 
deadly poison
now obsolete except in ratsbane, etc.

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Bane

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n.
1.
a. A cause of harm, ruin, or death: "Obedience, / Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth, / Makes slaves of men" (Percy Bysshe Shelley).
b. A source of persistent annoyance or exasperation: "The spellings of foreign names are often the bane of busy copy editors" (Norm Goldstein).
2. Archaic
a. Fatal injury or ruin: "Hath some fond lover tic'd thee to thy bane?" (George Herbert).
b. A deadly poison.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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