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noun
- 1. a cause of great distress or annoyance: "the telephone was the bane of my life"
- 2. something, especially poison, which causes death. archaic
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noun. uk / beɪn / us / beɪn / the bane of something. Add to word list. a cause of continuous trouble or unhappiness: Keeping noise levels low is the bane of airport administration. That cat is the bane of my life! Synonyms. curse. scourge. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Difficult things and people. a (heavy) cross to bear idiom.
1. : a source of harm or ruin : curse. national frontiers have been more of a bane than a boon for mankind D. C. Thomson. 2. a. : death, destruction. … stop the way of those that seek my bane … Philip Sidney. b. : woe. c. : poison. d. obsolete : killer, slayer. bane. 2 of 3. verb. baned; baning. transitive verb. obsolete.
noun. us / beɪn / uk / beɪn / the bane of something. Add to word list. a cause of continuous trouble or unhappiness: Keeping noise levels low is the bane of airport administration. That cat is the bane of my life! Synonyms. curse. scourge. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Difficult things and people. a (heavy) cross to bear idiom.
Definition of 'bane' bane. (beɪn ) singular noun. The bane of someone or the bane of someone's life is something that frequently makes them feel unhappy or annoyed. Rain is the bane of holiday-makers. Spots can be the bane of a teenager's life. Synonyms: plague [informal], bête noire, trial, disaster More Synonyms of bane.
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.
the bane of somebody/something something that causes trouble and makes people unhappy. The neighbours' kids are the bane of my life. The poor train service has been the bane of commuters for years.
The noun bane refers to anything that is a cause of harm, ruin, or death. But we often use it for things that aren't that bad, just feel like it. You might say mosquitoes are the bane of your existence.
Bane definition: a person or thing that ruins or spoils. See examples of BANE used in a sentence.
Bane Definition. bān. Meanings. Synonyms. Sentences. Definition Source. Word Forms. Origin. Noun. Verb. Filter. noun. A cause of harm, ruin, or death. American Heritage. Deadly harm; ruin; death. Webster's New World. A source of persistent annoyance or exasperation. American Heritage. The cause of distress, death, or ruin. Webster's New World.
noun. 1. a person or thing that ruins or spoils. Gambling was the bane of his existence. 2. a deadly poison (often used in combination, as in the names of poisonous plants) wolfsbane. henbane. 3. death; destruction; ruin. 4. obsolete.
