Definitions for bane
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Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:5.0 / 4 votes

1. bane, curse, scourge, nemesisnoun

   something causing misery or death

   "the bane of my life"

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. BANEnoun

   Etymology: bana, Sax. a murderer.

   1. Poison.

   Begone, or else let me. ’Tis bane to draw
   The same air with thee. Ben Jonson, Catiline.

   All good to me becomes
   Bane; and in heav’n much worse would be my state. John Milton, Par. Lost, b. ix. l. 122.

   They, with speed,
   Their course through thickest constellations held,
   Spreading their bane. John Milton, Par. Lost, b. x. l. 412.

   Thus, am I doubly armed; my death and life,
   My bane and antidote, are both before me:
   This, in a moment, brings me to an end;
   But that informs me I shall never die. Joseph Addison, Cato.

   2. That which destroys; mischief; ruin.

   Insolency must be represt, or it will be the bane of the Christian religion. Richard Hooker, b. ii. § 7.

   I will not be afraid of death and bane,
   Till Birnam forest come to Dunsinane. William Shakespeare, Macbeth.

   Suffices that to me strength is my bane,
   And proves the source of all my miseries. John Milton, S. Agon.

   So entertain’d those odorous sweets the fiend,
   Who came their bane. John Milton, Paradise Lost, b. iv. l. 167.

   Who can omit the Gracchi, who declare
   The Scipios’ worth, those thunderbolts of war,
   The double bane of Carthage? John Dryden, Æneid vi.

   False religion is, in its nature, the greatest bane and destruction to government in the world. South.

2. To Baneverb

   To poison.

   Etymology: from the noun.

   What if my house be troubled with a rat,
   And I be pleas’d to give ten thousand ducats
   To have it ban’d. William Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. bane

   Bane is a noun that refers to a cause of great distress, annoyance, or ruin. It can also mean something that causes death or destruction. In a broader context, it can also refer to a person or thing that spoils or ruins an activity or situation. It originates from Old English and was historically used to refer to a cause of death, ruin, or harm.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Banenoun

   that which destroys life, esp. poison of a deadly quality

2. Banenoun

   destruction; death

3. Banenoun

   any cause of ruin, or lasting injury; harm; woe

4. Banenoun

   a disease in sheep, commonly termed the rot

5. Baneverb

   to be the bane of; to ruin

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. Bane

   bān, n. destruction: death: mischief: poison.—v.t. (arch.) to harm, to poison.—adj. Bane′ful, destructive.—adv. Bane′fully.—n. Bane′fulness. [A.S. bana, a murderer; Ice. bani, death.]

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Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. BANE

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Bane is ranked #6127 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Bane surname appeared 5,591 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 2 would have the surname Bane.
   
   92.3% or 5,163 total occurrences were White.
   2.8% or 159 total occurrences were Black.
   1.8% or 103 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   1.3% or 77 total occurrences were of two or more races.
   0.8% or 45 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
   0.7% or 44 total occurrences were Asian.

Matched Categories

1. • Affliction

Anagrams for bane »

1. bena

2. bean

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1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

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   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

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   Veena

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   Priya

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   Neerja

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   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

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   Wendy

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   Fred

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   Tessa

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of bane in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of bane in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of bane in a Sentence

1. Sarm Heslop:

   My days are consumed by what happened in the hours between Bane finding Sarm missing and Bane calling the Coast Guard, why didn’t he shout for help or sound an alarm to notify the two other boats moored close by that Sarm was missing? …No one but Bane can explain why he didn’t call the Coast Guard until eight hours after speaking to the police on land.

2. Counterpoint Research analyst Neil Shah:

   It is both a boon and a bane to have Apple as a customer https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-04-03/apple-supplier-learns-downside-of-living-at-juggernaut-s-mercy

3. Jeffrey Vlaming:

   CHRIS The bane and blessing of human nature. That old cat killer, curiosity. Something so deeply embedded in our psyches that it screams to us from ancient myths of Pandora. Eve. Lot's wife. JOEL Eve lost paradise, Lot's wife was turned into a pillar of salt. Knowledge doesn't come cheap my friend. CHRIS Good or bad, curiosity is woven into our DNA like tonsils or like the opposable thumb. It's the fire under the ass of the human experience

4. David Katz:

   It may not even center on [Bane], she went missing from the boat. I want to search the boat and find out, was there something? Maybe there was someone else on the boat, someone snuck on the boat?

5. Didier Gonzales:

   Noise is the bane of modern life and a major health issue. It hurts people like secondary smoking does.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=bane
2. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=bane
3. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
4. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bane
5. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=bane
6. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html