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ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Name

Definition 1:
• A surname.
Noun
Pronunciation: /beɪn/

Definition 1:
• A cause of misery or ruin.
Example: the bane of one's existence
Wiktionary-listed synonyms: blight, affliction, curse, undoing, downfall
Wiktionary-listed antonyms: boon
Labels: countable

Definition 2:
• Alternative spelling of bone.
Labels: Scotland, alt-of, alternative, transitive

Definition 3:
• Chiefly in the names of poisonous plants or substances: a poison.
Labels: archaic, countable

Definition 4:
• Misery, woe; also, doom, ruin; or physical injury, harm.
Labels: poetic, uncountable

Definition 5:
• A disease of sheep in which breakdown of tissue occurs; rot.
Labels: biology, medicine, natural-sciences, pathology, sciences, veterinary, zoology, UK, dialectal, uncountable

Definition 6:
• A person or thing that causes death or destruction; a killer, a murderer, a slayer.
Labels: countable, obsolete

Definition 7:
• Death; destruction; (countable) an instance of this.
Labels: obsolete, uncountable
Verb
Pronunciation: /beɪn/

Definition 1:
• To physically injure (someone or something); to harm, to hurt.
Labels: archaic, transitive

Definition 2:
• To cause (someone) misery or ruin; to socially or spiritually injure (someone).
Labels: archaic, figuratively, transitive

Definition 3:
• To cause (sheep) a disease, especially the rot ("a disease in which breakdown of tissue occurs").
Labels: biology, medicine, natural-sciences, pathology, sciences, veterinary, zoology, UK, dialectal, transitive

Definition 4:
• To kill (a person or animal), especially by poison.
Labels: obsolete, transitive

Source and attribution
Wiktionary contributors, via Kaikki/Wiktextract. Derived from Wiktionary; CC BY-SA and GFDL terms apply. Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bane