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bane (b n)
n.
1) Fatal injury or ruin: “Hath some fond lover tic'd thee to thy bane?” (George Herbert).
2)
a) A cause of harm, ruin, or death: “Obedience,/Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth,/Makes slaves of men” (Percy Bysshe Shelley).
b) A source of persistent annoyance or exasperation: “The spellings of foreign names are often the bane of busy copy editors” (Norm Goldstein).
3) A deadly poison.
[Middle English, destroyer, from Old English bana. See gwhen- in Indo-European Roots.]
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