Bane

Definition: Bane

Bane

Noun

1. Something causes misery or death; "the bane of my life".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "bane" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Note: Bane \Bane\, transitive verb. To be the bane of; to ruin. [Obsolete]. (references)

Literature

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Synonyms: Bane

Bane

Noun: bane, curse; evil; hurtfulness; (badness); painfulness; (cause of pain); scourge; (punishment); damnosa hereditas; white elephant.

Evil

Mental suffering. demon &Verb:. bane. badness; painfulness; evil doer.

Evil doer

Canker-worm, wire-worm; locust, Colorado beetle; alacran, alligator, caymon, crocodile, mosquito, mugger, octopus; torpedo; bane.

Inexpedience

Evil doer; bane; plague spot; (insalubrity); evil star, ill wind; hoodoo; Jonah; snake in the grass, skeleton in the closet; amari aliquid, thorn in the side.

Crosswords: Bane

Manx (blank, blond, blonde, fair, pallid; fallow, unbroken, unbroken as ground, white), Norwegian (course).

Phool Bane Angare (1963)

Aansoo Bane Angaray (1993)

Phool Bane Angaray (1991)

Jyoti Bane Jwala (1980)

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Books

• A Mortal Bane (reference)

• Finder's Bane (Forgotten Realms Lost Gods, Vol. 1) (reference)

• Lord Foul's Bane (The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever, Book 1) (reference)

• Precious Bane (reference)

• The Bane of the Black Sword (reference)

  (more book examples)

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The bane of Chesapeake Bay swimmers, the stinging sea nettle, Chrysaora quiquecirrha. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Medium shot of Flea Bane wildflowers, Lakeview District. Credit: Terry Spivey.

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But this long debt of confidence, due from me to him, whose bane and ruin I have been, shall at length be paid

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Civil Liberties

Cameroon

An SDF opposition party deputy alleged that on February 1, gendarmes molested SDF members in Kama, a village of Biwong Bane division, South Province, while the SDF was holding a preparatory meeting for a rally in a private residence. (references)

Economic History

Bolivia

The 1995 Central Bank Law refined the Central Bank's controls over the banking sector, setting higher reserve requirements and eliminating the insider lending that has been the bane of Bolivian banks and has led to the collapse of many. (references)

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Expressions using "bane": be the bane of smb.'s life ♦ Goat's bane ♦ it has been the bane of my life ♦ leopard's bane ♦ Libbard's bane ♦ wolf's bane. Additional references.

Ending with "bane": cow-bane, dog-bane, Dog's-bane, fox-bane, hause-bane, leopard's-bane.

Albanian

vdekje (death, decease, departure, dissolution, doom, dying, exit, fate, quietus), helm (caustic, causticity, gall, poison, toxic, venom), fatkeqësi (accident, adversity, calamity, casualty, disaster, distress, doom, evil, fatality, ill luck, infelicity, misadventure, misery, misfortune, plague, teen, tribulation, woe), farmak (poison, sorrow). (various references)

Arabic 

‏موت (death, decease, demise, dissolution, ending, exit, expiration, expiry, fate, passing, quietus), ‏مصدر أذى, ‏هلاك (destruction, end, perdition), ‏سم (damp, poison, pore, venom), ‏خراب (decay, demolition, desolation, destruction, devastation, dilapidation, havoc, perdition, rack, ravage, ruin, ruination, undoing, wrack, wreck, wreckage). (various references)

Blackfoot

sikaoki (red bane berry). (various references)

Bulgarian 

отрова (aconite, poison, venom, virus), проклятие (anathema, curse, cuss, damn, damnation, execration, imprecation, malediction, malison, perdition). (various references)

Chinese 

诅咒 (Anathema, Anathemas, Curse, Cursed, curses, Cursing, Damn), 毒害 . (various references)

Czech

záhuba (doom, perdition, ruin, undoing), prokletí (curse, damnation, execration, imprecation, malediction), kletba (blight, curse, malison, oath). (various references)

Farsi 

مخرب زندگی , مایه ء هلاکت , قاتل (Assassin, Cutthroat, Deadly, Killer, Murderer, Slayer, Thug), جانی (Convict, Criminal). (various references)

French

poison, peste, malheur (bad luck, bale), fléau. (various references)

German

Verderben (abase, addle, adulterate, banes, barbarize, become corrupted, become depraved, become ruined, become spoiled, blight, break down, bribe, contaminate, corrupt, damage, debauch, deprave, destroy, disaster, doom, go bad, go off, going off, infect, injure, kill, Mar, molder, perdition, perditions, pervert, pollute, pollution, put off, ruin, ruination, ruining, spoil, spoiling, spoilt, taint, to barbarize, to debauch, to deprave, to spoil, to taint, undoing, vitiate, vitiation, wreck), Ruin (breakup, decay, ruin, undoing). (various references)

Greek 

όλεθροσ (calamity, perdition, ruin, ruination, wrack), δηλητήριο (arsenic, poison, toxin, venom, virus). (various references)

Hebrew 

להרוס (blight, demolish, destroy, havoc, pull down, ravage, ruin, shatter, tear down, wreck), הרס (destroy, destruction, havoc, ravage, ruin, wrack, wreckage), רעל (poison, venom). (various references)

Hungarian

méreg (anger, bate, bother, poison, spunk, toxic, toxin, venom), csapás (adversity, affliction, attack, calamity, chop, clash, dent, disaster, follow-up attack, hack, hit, ills, misfortune, plague, raid, runway, slap, sorrow, strike, striking, stroke, thrust, track, tribulation, whack), veszedelem (danger, evil, peril, scourge), baj (bother, complaint, discomfort, grief, harm, malady, matter, misadventure, mischief, mischievousness, misery, misfortune, need, pits, predicament, trouble, woe). (various references)

Indonesian

racun (poison, toxicant, venom), kutukan (curse, damnation, depracation). (various references)

Italian

veleno; flagello; sventura, veleno (poison, ptomaine, toxin, venom), rovina (bad, bust, decay, destruction, disrepair, havoc, rack, ravage, rot, ruin, ruination, smash up, undoing). (various references)

Manx

sheer-voireyder (importunate person, persecutor), feoh nieu. (various references)

Pig Latin

anebay.(various references)

Portuguese

veneno (poison, venom, virus), prejudicar (crack, damage, damnify, disserve, encroach, harm, hinder, hurt, impair, inhibit, injure, jeopard, jeopardize, pocket, prejudice, prevent, queer, scathe, spoil, upset), perdição (downfall, perdition, ruin, ruination), envenenar (empoison, envenom, poison), desgraça (adversity, blow, cloud, contempt, disaster, disgrace, distress, misfortune, reproach, tragedy, undoing), causa mortis. (various references)

Romanian

urgie (wrath), ucidere (assassination, crime, death, kill, killing, slaughter), otravã (bait, bitterness, poison, venom), omor (carnage, homicide, murder, slaughter), nenorocire (accident, affliction, bale, blow, calamity, catastrophe, curse, disaster, distress, evil, ill, misadventure, misery, misfortune, need, reverse, rod, scourge, sore, trouble). (various references)

Russian 

отрава (aconite, poison). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

uzrok uništenja, propast (calamity, downfall, failure, perdition, precipice, ruin, ruination, smash, wrack, wreck), otrov (hemlock, poison, toxicant, toxin, venom). (various references)

Spanish

veneno (poison, venom), ruina de (ravage, wrack), plaga (blight, plague), perdición (damnation, doom, perdition, ruin, ruination), envenenar (embitter, empoison, envenom, poison), destrucción (blasting, defeasance, destruction, havoc, obliteration, rape, undoing, wreck, wreckage), arruinar (bankrupt, beggar, blast, blight, break, dilapidate, leak, mess up, murder, ruin, scuttle, tear, throw over, wash out, wreck). (various references)

Swedish

fördärv (blight, corruption, destruction, fate, perdition, perversity, ruin, taint, undoing). (various references)

Turkish

yıkım (bad, blight, cropper, damnation, death, debacle, demolition, disaster, havoc, ravage, ruin, undoing, wrecking), felâket (affliction, blight, blow, calamity, calvary, casualty, cataclysm, catastrophe, debacle, disaster, distress, fatality, fate, harm, hell, hell of, helluva, misfortune, mishap, plague, scathe, scourge, tragedy, undoing), afet (a bewitching beauty, beauty, blight, calamity, cataclysm, catastrophe, disaster, kayo, knockout, stunner). (various references)

Ukrainian

смерть (death, decease, end, last, quietus), отруювати (disease, empoison, envenom, intoxicate, poison), отрута (atter, poison, toxic, toxicant, venom, virus), загибель (bad, blasting, catastrophe, collapse, death, destruction, doom, ending, fate, overthrow, perdition, ruin, undoing, wreck, wreckage), прокляття (anathema, ban, curse, cuss, damn, damn it, damnation, darn, execration, imprecation, malediction, malison, oath, perdition). (various references)

Vietnamese 

thuốc độc. (various references)

Welsh

melltith (curse, hex), dinistr (destruction). (various references)

cladem, clades, perniciem. (various references)

bana. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "bane": baneberries, baneberry, baned, baneful, banefully, banes. (additional references)

Words ending with "bane": bugbane, cowbane, dogbane, fleabane, henbane, inurbane, ratsbane, urbane, wolfsbane. (additional references)

Words containing "bane": bugbanes, cowbanes, dogbanes, fleabanes, habanera, habaneras, henbanes, ratsbanes, turbaned, urbanely, urbaner, urbanest, wolfsbanes. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Bane" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aane, abane, Abano, Abanu, aben, abine, abinee, abn, abnea, abney, Abune, baan, baance, bae, Bagna, Bagnet, bagno, bahn, baie, baine, Baje, Bajee, Balne, bame, bana, banai, bande, baned, Baneh, banej, banel, banen, baner, banet, baney, bange, bani, banig, banik, Banim, banit, Banken, bann, Bannau, Bannog, bano, banq, banre, bant, bante, Banu, Banwen, bany, bape, barne, bave, bawe, baxe, bayne, bcn, bdna, beane, beinee, benef, benew, benez, beni, beno, bente, Bhajee, biane, bien, bina, Binab, bine, bineo, binex, Bini, binna, binno, binze, Bjarne, Blaen, Bnaf, b'now, Boneji, brana, brane, branee, bune, Bunne, bvan, iane, ibane. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: bean, nabe.

-1 letter: ane, ban, ben, nab, nae, neb.

-2 letters: ab, ae, an, ba, be, en, na, ne.

+1 letter: baned, banes, beano, beans, began, nabes.

+2 letters: absent, ameban, badmen, bagmen, baleen, banded, bander, banged, banger, bangle, banked, banker, banned, banner, bannet, banter, barmen, barren, batmen, batten, baymen, beacon, beaned, beanie, beanos, beaten, bedamn, bedpan, bemean, bemoan, bename, benday, benzal, bezant, binate, borane, brazen, butane, byname, cabmen, embank, enable, graben, nabbed, nabber, nearby, nebula, sabine, unable, unbear, urbane.