bale
bale is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 2 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.Misery; Let now your bliss be turned into bale. Spenser.
- 2.Evil; an evil, pernicious influence; something causing great injury. [Now chiefly poetic]
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- accident
- adversity
- and
- awry
- bad
- badness
- bane
- basket
- blow
- box
- bruise
- buffet
- burden
- calamity
- cargo
- casualty
- catastrophe
- cause
- contents
- cosmopolitan
- cost
- crying
- cup
- damage
- demon
- destruction
- deterioration
- devil
- disadvantage
- disadvantageous
- disaster
- disastrous
- disservice
- doer
- domestic
- drawback
- even
- evil
- field
- flesh
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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