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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024bane /beɪn/USA pronunciation n. [countable* usually singular]- a person or thing that ruins: Gambling was the bane of his life.
- a poison (used in combination, as in the names of poisonous plants): wolfsbane;
henbane.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024bane (bān),USA pronunciation n. - a person or thing that ruins or spoils:Gambling was the bane of his existence.
- a deadly poison (often used in combination, as in the names of poisonous plants):wolfsbane; henbane.
- death;
destruction;
ruin. - [Obs.]that which causes death or destroys life:entrapped and drowned beneath the watery bane.
- bef. 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
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: bane /beɪn/ n - a person or thing that causes misery or distress (esp in the phrase bane of one's life)
- something that causes death or destruction
- a fatal poison
- (in combination): ratsbane
- archaic ruin or distress
Etymology: Old English bana; related to Old Norse bani death, Old High German bano destruction, death |