BANE meaning: Source of persistent annoyance or distress

We found 39 dictionaries that define the word bane:

General (27 matching dictionaries)

bane: Merriam-Webster
bane: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
bane: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
bane: Collins English Dictionary
bane: Vocabulary.com
Bane, bane: Wordnik
bane: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
Bane, bane: Wiktionary
bane: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
bane: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
bane: Infoplease Dictionary
bane: Dictionary.com
bane: Online Etymology Dictionary
bane: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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Bane: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
bane: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
bane: Rhymezone
Bane: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
bane: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
bane: FreeDictionary.org
bane: Mnemonic Dictionary
Bane: The Word Detective
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bane: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)

Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)

Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
bane: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

bane: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)

bane: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)

BANE: Acronym Finder
bane: A Word A Day
bane: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)

bane: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
bane: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ noun:  A cause of misery or death.
▸ noun:  (dated) Poison, especially any of several poisonous plants.
▸ noun:  (obsolete) A killer, murderer, slayer.
▸ noun:  (obsolete) Destruction; death.
▸ noun:  A disease of sheep.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To kill, especially by poison; to be the poison of.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To be the bane of.
▸ noun:  (chiefly Scotland) Bone.
▸ noun:  A surname.

Similar:

curse, scourge, nemesis, brimstone, death, bale, hell, torment, death sentence, beast, more...

Opposite:

boon

Types:

poison, venom, disease, plague, pestilence, famine, war, terrorism, crime, pollution, more...

Phrases:

wolfs bane, leopards bane, wolf's bane, dogs bane, leopard's bane, more...

Adjectives:

great, very, precious, chief, deadliest, proper, common, bare, real, white, eternal

Colors:

black, dark red, deep purple, charcoal, midnight blue, more...