bane

Meaning

Noun

1. A cause of misery or death.
2. Poison, especially any of several poisonous plants.
3. (obsolete) A killer, murderer, slayer.
4. (obsolete) Destruction; death.
5. A disease of sheep.

Verb

1. To kill, especially by poison; to be the poison of.
2. To be the bane of.

Synonyms

poison

curse

slayer

toxin

nuisance

venom

nemesis

toxic substance

drag

scourge

hardship

imprecation

killer

malediction

parliament

perdition

plague

ruin

ruination

stymie

stymy

trouble

vexation

virus

woe

wrack

hard time

tsuris

death

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pain

annoyance

conjury

arduousness

arsenic

bind

botheration

bugaboo

calamity

destruction

difficulty

hardness

Pronounced as (IPA)

/beɪn/

Etymology

From Middle English bane, from Old English bana, from Proto-West Germanic *banō, from Proto-Germanic *banô (compare Old High German bano (“death”), Icelandic bani (“bane, death”)), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰon-on-, from the o-grade of *gʷʰen- (“to strike, to kill”).