"bane" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /beɪn/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-bane.wav [Southern-England] Forms: banes [plural]
Rhymes: -eɪn Etymology: From Middle English bane, from Old English bana, from Proto-West Germanic *banō, from Proto-Germanic *banô (compare Old High German bano (“death”), Icelandic bani (“bane, death”)), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰon-on-, from the o-grade of *gʷʰen- (“to strike, to kill”). Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*gʷʰen-}}, {{inh|en|enm|bane}} Middle English bane, {{inh|en|ang|bana}} Old English bana, {{inh|en|gmw-pro|*banō}} Proto-West Germanic *banō, {{inh|en|gem-pro|*banô}} Proto-Germanic *banô, {{cog|goh|bano||death}} Old High German bano (“death”), {{cog|is|bani||bane, death}} Icelandic bani (“bane, death”), {{inh|en|ine-pro|*gʷʰon-on-}} Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰon-on-, {{m|ine-pro|*gʷʰen-|gloss=to strike, to kill}} *gʷʰen- (“to strike, to kill”) Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} bane (countable and uncountable, plural banes)
  1. A cause of misery or death. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Death Synonyms: affliction, curse Translations (source of harm or ruin; affliction): δήλημα (dḗlēma) [neuter] (Ancient Greek), ὄλεθρος (ólethros) [masculine] (Ancient Greek), зло (zlo) (Bulgarian), напаст (napast) (Bulgarian), desgràcia [feminine] (Catalan), flagell [masculine] (Catalan), bane (Danish), verderf [neuter] (Dutch), vitsaus (Finnish), kirous (Finnish), riesa (Finnish), maanvaiva (Finnish), fléau [masculine] (French), drame [masculine] (French), cauchemar [masculine] (French), calamité [feminine] (French), desgraza [feminine] (Galician), azoute [masculine] (Galician), flaxelo [masculine] (Galician), Ruin [masculine] (German), Verderben [neuter] (German), rontás (Hungarian), csapás (Hungarian), urbhaidh [feminine, literary] (Irish), rovina [feminine] (Italian), flagello [masculine] (Italian), piaga [feminine] (Italian), disgrazia [feminine] (Italian), sventura [feminine] (Italian), зло (zlo) [neuter] (Macedonian), на́паст (nápast) [feminine] (Macedonian), про́клетство (prókletstvo) [neuter] (Macedonian), bane [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), desgraça [feminine] (Portuguese), flagelo [masculine] (Portuguese), ruína (Portuguese), maldição (Portuguese), perdição (Portuguese), desventura (Portuguese), зло (zlo) [neuter] (Russian), напа́сть (napástʹ) [feminine] (Russian), бич (bič) [masculine] (Russian), прокля́тие (prokljátije) [neuter] (Russian), ги́бель (gíbelʹ) [feminine] (Russian), desgracia [feminine] (Spanish), maldición [feminine] (Spanish), ruina [feminine] (Spanish), perdición [feminine] (Spanish), felaket (Turkish), yıkım (Turkish), напасть (napastʹ) [feminine] (Ukrainian), прокляття (prokljattja) [neuter] (Ukrainian), зло (zlo) [neuter] (Ukrainian), загибель (zahybelʹ) [feminine] (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-bane-en-noun-TsDKJl5i Disambiguation of Death: 18 6 6 35 0 30 4 0 Disambiguation of 'source of harm or ruin; affliction': 87 2 0 6 5
  2. (dated) Poison, especially any of several poisonous plants. Tags: countable, dated, uncountable
    Sense id: en-bane-en-noun-ZfdAMbul
  3. (obsolete) A killer, murderer, slayer. Tags: countable, obsolete, uncountable
    Sense id: en-bane-en-noun-ZnB04uwm
  4. (obsolete) Destruction; death. Tags: countable, obsolete, uncountable Categories (topical): Death
    Sense id: en-bane-en-noun-STF8Ui~b Disambiguation of Death: 18 6 6 35 0 30 4 0
  5. A disease of sheep. Tags: countable, uncountable Synonyms: rot
    Sense id: en-bane-en-noun-rQ5Xaiv8
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1 Derived forms: a boon and a bane, a boon or a bane, Austrian leopard's bane (taxonomic: Doronicum austriacum), -bane, baneberry (taxonomic: Actaea spp.), baneful, bane of one's existence, bane of one's life, bane of someone's existence, bane of someone's life, bollan bane, boon and bane, boon or bane, common dogbane (taxonomic: Apocynum androsaemifolium), dog bane (alt: syn. Plectranthus ornatus) (taxonomic: Coleus comosus), dogs-bane, leopard's bane (english: Doronicum spp. et al.), libbard's bane, tippler's bane, wolf's bane, wolfsbane (taxonomic: Aconitum spp.)

Noun

IPA: /beɪn/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-bane.wav [Southern-England] Forms: banes [plural]
Rhymes: -eɪn Etymology: From Middle English ban (northern dialect), from Old English bān. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|ban|pos=northern dialect}} Middle English ban (northern dialect), {{inh|en|ang|bān}} Old English bān Head templates: {{en-noun}} bane (plural banes)
  1. (chiefly Scotland) Bone. Tags: Scotland Categories (topical): Death
    Sense id: en-bane-en-noun-9q2qM1ON Disambiguation of Death: 18 6 6 35 0 30 4 0 Categories (other): Scottish English, English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 7 14 23 1 4 49 2 1 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 6 8 21 1 3 59 2 1
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Verb

IPA: /beɪn/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-bane.wav [Southern-England] Forms: banes [present, singular, third-person], baning [participle, present], baned [participle, past], baned [past]
Rhymes: -eɪn Etymology: From Middle English bane, from Old English bana, from Proto-West Germanic *banō, from Proto-Germanic *banô (compare Old High German bano (“death”), Icelandic bani (“bane, death”)), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰon-on-, from the o-grade of *gʷʰen- (“to strike, to kill”). Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*gʷʰen-}}, {{inh|en|enm|bane}} Middle English bane, {{inh|en|ang|bana}} Old English bana, {{inh|en|gmw-pro|*banō}} Proto-West Germanic *banō, {{inh|en|gem-pro|*banô}} Proto-Germanic *banô, {{cog|goh|bano||death}} Old High German bano (“death”), {{cog|is|bani||bane, death}} Icelandic bani (“bane, death”), {{inh|en|ine-pro|*gʷʰon-on-}} Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰon-on-, {{m|ine-pro|*gʷʰen-|gloss=to strike, to kill}} *gʷʰen- (“to strike, to kill”) Head templates: {{en-verb}} bane (third-person singular simple present banes, present participle baning, simple past and past participle baned)
  1. (transitive) To kill, especially by poison; to be the poison of. Tags: transitive Translations (to be the poison of): envenenar (Spanish), intoxicar (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-bane-en-verb-RokItnLD Disambiguation of 'to be the poison of': 100 0
  2. (transitive) To be the bane of. Tags: transitive Translations (to be the bane of): verderven (Dutch), ruïneren (Dutch), tärvellä (Finnish), vaivata (Finnish), ruinieren (German), bane [masculine] (Norwegian), maldizer (Portuguese), arruinar (Portuguese), maldecir (Spanish), arruinar (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-bane-en-verb-ouf9b55s Disambiguation of 'to be the bane of': 0 100
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Inflected forms

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          "code": "ca",
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          "word": "vitsaus"
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        {
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          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "source of harm or ruin; affliction",
          "word": "kirous"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "87 2 0 6 5",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "source of harm or ruin; affliction",
          "word": "riesa"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "87 2 0 6 5",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "source of harm or ruin; affliction",
          "word": "maanvaiva"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "87 2 0 6 5",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "source of harm or ruin; affliction",
          "tags": [
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          ],
          "word": "fléau"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "87 2 0 6 5",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "source of harm or ruin; affliction",
          "tags": [
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          ],
          "word": "drame"
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        {
          "_dis1": "87 2 0 6 5",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "source of harm or ruin; affliction",
          "tags": [
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          ],
          "word": "cauchemar"
        },
        {
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          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "source of harm or ruin; affliction",
          "tags": [
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          ],
          "word": "calamité"
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          "code": "gl",
          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "source of harm or ruin; affliction",
          "tags": [
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          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "source of harm or ruin; affliction",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "azoute"
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          "code": "gl",
          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "source of harm or ruin; affliction",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "flaxelo"
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          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "source of harm or ruin; affliction",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "Ruin"
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          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "source of harm or ruin; affliction",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "Verderben"
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          "code": "grc",
          "lang": "Ancient Greek",
          "roman": "dḗlēma",
          "sense": "source of harm or ruin; affliction",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "δήλημα"
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        {
          "_dis1": "87 2 0 6 5",
          "code": "grc",
          "lang": "Ancient Greek",
          "roman": "ólethros",
          "sense": "source of harm or ruin; affliction",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "ὄλεθρος"
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          "_dis1": "87 2 0 6 5",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "source of harm or ruin; affliction",
          "word": "rontás"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "87 2 0 6 5",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "source of harm or ruin; affliction",
          "word": "csapás"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "87 2 0 6 5",
          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "source of harm or ruin; affliction",
          "tags": [
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            "literary"
          ],
          "word": "urbhaidh"
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        {
          "_dis1": "87 2 0 6 5",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "source of harm or ruin; affliction",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "rovina"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "87 2 0 6 5",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "source of harm or ruin; affliction",
          "tags": [
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          ],
          "word": "flagello"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "87 2 0 6 5",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "source of harm or ruin; affliction",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "piaga"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "87 2 0 6 5",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "source of harm or ruin; affliction",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "disgrazia"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "87 2 0 6 5",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "source of harm or ruin; affliction",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "sventura"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "87 2 0 6 5",
          "code": "mk",
          "lang": "Macedonian",
          "roman": "zlo",
          "sense": "source of harm or ruin; affliction",
          "tags": [
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          ],
          "word": "зло"
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        {
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          "code": "mk",
          "lang": "Macedonian",
          "roman": "nápast",
          "sense": "source of harm or ruin; affliction",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "на́паст"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "87 2 0 6 5",
          "code": "mk",
          "lang": "Macedonian",
          "roman": "prókletstvo",
          "sense": "source of harm or ruin; affliction",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "про́клетство"
        },
        {
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          "code": "nb",
          "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
          "sense": "source of harm or ruin; affliction",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
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          "word": "bane"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "87 2 0 6 5",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "source of harm or ruin; affliction",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "desgraça"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "87 2 0 6 5",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "source of harm or ruin; affliction",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "flagelo"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "87 2 0 6 5",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "source of harm or ruin; affliction",
          "word": "ruína"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "87 2 0 6 5",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "source of harm or ruin; affliction",
          "word": "maldição"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "87 2 0 6 5",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "source of harm or ruin; affliction",
          "word": "perdição"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "87 2 0 6 5",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "source of harm or ruin; affliction",
          "word": "desventura"
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        {
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      "taxonomic": "Doronicum austriacum",
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      "taxonomic": "Actaea spp.",
      "word": "baneberry"
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    {
      "word": "bane of one's life"
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    {
      "word": "bane of someone's life"
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      "taxonomic": "Apocynum androsaemifolium",
      "word": "common dogbane"
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      "alt": "syn. Plectranthus ornatus",
      "taxonomic": "Coleus comosus",
      "word": "dog bane"
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      "word": "leopard's bane"
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    {
      "word": "libbard's bane"
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    {
      "word": "tippler's bane"
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    {
      "word": "wolf's bane"
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      "taxonomic": "Aconitum spp.",
      "word": "wolfsbane"
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    "English terms derived from Middle English",
    "English terms derived from Old English",
    "English terms inherited from Middle English",
    "English terms inherited from Old English",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "Rhymes:English/eɪn",
    "Rhymes:English/eɪn/1 syllable",
    "en:Death"
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        "pos": "northern dialect"
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          "ref": "1686, \"Lyke-Wake Dirge\" as printed in The Oxford Book of English Verse (1900) p. 361",
          "text": "The fire will burn thee to the bare bane."
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        "Bone."
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