bane
bane is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 4 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.Destruction; death. [Obs.] The cup of deception spiced and tempered to their bane. Milton.
- 2.Any cause of ruin, or lasting injury; harm; woe. Money, thou bane of bliss, and source of woe. Herbert.
- 3.A disease in sheep, commonly termed the rot.
- 4.To be the bane of; to ruin. [Obs.] Fuller.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Synonyms (Webster's 1913)
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- accident
- adversity
- and
- assassin
- awry
- bad
- badness
- bale
- blow
- box
- bruise
- buffet
- calamity
- cankerworm
- casualty
- catastrophe
- cause
- cost
- crying
- damage
- demon
- destroy
- destroyer
- destruction
- deterioration
- devil
- disadvantage
- disadvantageous
- disaster
- disastrous
- disservice
- doer
- drawback
- evil
- executioner
- field
- flesh
- flood
- foul
- gash
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
Related questions
Reverse-dictionary questions
Definition-first questions whose answer is bane.
- What is destruction; death. [Obs.] The cup of deception spiced and tempered to their bane. Milton called?
- What is any cause of ruin, or lasting injury; harm; woe. Money, thou bane of bliss, and source of woe. Herbert called?
- What is a disease in sheep, commonly termed the rot called?
- What is to be the bane of; to ruin. [Obs.] Fuller called?
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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