• IPA: /beɪn/

bane

1. A cause of misery or death.

   Synonyms: affliction, curse

   Antonyms: boon

   the bane of one's existence

   • Money, thou bane of bliss, and source of woe.

2. (dated) Poison, especially any of several poisonous plants.
3. (obsolete) A killer, murderer, slayer.
4. (obsolete) Destruction; death.
   • 1650, [John Milton], ['Eikonoklastes].  […], A New Edition,  […] edition, London: Printed for G. Kearsly,  […], published 1770, OCLC 1069331418 ↗, page 272 ↗:

     the cup of deception, ſpiced and tempered to their bane

5. A disease of sheep.

   Synonyms: rot

• French: fléau, drame, cauchemar
• German: Ruin, Verderben
• Italian: rovina, flagello, piaga, disgrazia, sventura
• Portuguese: desgraça, flagelo
• Russian: зло
• Spanish: desgracia, maldición, ruina, perdición

bane (banes, present participle baning; past and past participle baned)

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

• Spanish: envenenar, intoxicar

• German: ruinieren
• Spanish: maldecir, arruinar

bane (plural banes)

1. (chiefly, Scotland) bone

1. Surname