'Bane' definitions:
Definition of 'bane'
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Definition of 'Bane'
From: GCIDE
- Bane \Bane\, v. t. To be the bane of; to ruin. [Obs.] --Fuller. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Bane'
From: GCIDE
- Bane \Bane\ (b[=a]n), n. [OE. bane destruction, AS. bana murderer; akin to Icel. bani death, murderer, OHG. bana murder, bano murderer, Goth. banja stroke, wound, Gr. foney`s murderer, fo`nos murder, OIr. bath death, benim I strike. [root]31.]
- 1. That which destroys life, esp. poison of a deadly quality. [Obs. except in combination, as in ratsbane, henbane, etc.] [1913 Webster]
- 2. Destruction; death. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- The cup of deception spiced and tempered to their bane. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Any cause of ruin, or lasting injury; harm; woe. [1913 Webster]
- Money, thou bane of bliss, and source of woe. --Herbert. [1913 Webster]
- 4. A disease in sheep, commonly termed the rot. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Poison; ruin; destruction; injury; pest. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'bane'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abomination,
- annihilation,
- atrocity,
- bad,
- befoulment,
- biological death,
- blight,
- blood,
- bloodletting,
- bloodshed,
- braining,
- cessation of life,
- clinical death,
- contagion,
- corruption,
- crossing the bar,
- crying evil,
- curtains,
- damage,
- dealing death,
- death,
- death knell,
- deathblow,
- debt of nature,
- decease,
- defilement,
- demise,
- departure,
- despoliation,
- destroyer,
- destruction,
- destruction of life,
- detriment,
- dispatch,
- dissolution,
- doom,
- dying,
- ebb of life,
- end,
- end of life,
- ending,
- eternal rest,
- euthanasia,
- evil,
- execution,
- exit,
- expiration,
- extermination,
- extinction,
- extinguishment,
- fate,
- final summons,
- finger of death,
- flow of blood,
- going,
- going off,
- gore,
- grave,
- grievance,
- hand of death,
- harm,
- havoc,
- hurt,
- ill,
- immolation,
- infection,
- injury,
- jaws of death,
- kill,
- killing,
- knell,
- lapidation,
- last debt,
- last muster,
- last rest,
- last roundup,
- last sleep,
- leaving life,
- loss of life,
- making an end,
- martyrdom,
- martyrization,
- mercy killing,
- mischief,
- outrage,
- parting,
- passing,
- passing away,
- passing over,
- perishing,
- poison,
- poisoning,
- pollution,
- quietus,
- release,
- rest,
- reward,
- ritual killing,
- ritual murder,
- ruin,
- ruination,
- sacrifice,
- sentence of death,
- shades of death,
- shadow of death,
- shooting,
- slaughter,
- slaying,
- sleep,
- somatic death,
- stoning,
- summons of death,
- taking of life,
- the worst,
- toxin,
- undoing,
- venom,
- vexation,
- virus,
- woe,
- wrong