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n. Fatal injury or ruin: "Hath some fond lover tic'd thee to thy bane?” ( George Herbert).

n. A cause of harm, ruin, or death: "Obedience,/Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth,/Makes slaves of men” ( Percy Bysshe Shelley).

n. A source of persistent annoyance or exasperation: "The spellings of foreign names are often the bane of busy copy editors” ( Norm Goldstein).

n. A deadly poison.

n. A cause of misery or death; an affliction or curse

n. A killer, murderer, slayer

n. Poison, especially any of several poisonous plants

v. To kill, especially by poison; to be the poison of.

v. To be the bane of.

n. A bone

n. That which destroys life, esp. poison of a deadly quality.

n. Destruction; death.

n. Any cause of ruin, or lasting injury; harm; woe.

n. A disease in sheep, commonly termed the rot.

v. To be the bane of; to ruin.

n. A slayer or murderer; a worker of death, as a man or an animal.

n. That which causes death or destroys life; especially, poison of a deadly quality.

n. Hence Any fatal cause of mischief, injury, or destruction: as, vice is the bane of society.

n. Ruin; destruction.

n. Death: usually with such verbs as catch, get, take: as, to catch one's bane.

n. A disease in sheep, more commonly called the rot.

To kill; poison.

To injure; ruin.

n. Scotch form of bone.

n. An obsolete form of ban, especially in plural banes, now banns (which see).

An obsolete form of bain.

An obsolete form of bain.

n. something causing misery or death

"Consider This: Unless people are aware of its Hawaiian origins, this name will evoke the word bane and all its negative associations."

boon   

affliction   

rot   

boon and bane    baneberry    wolfsbane    baneful   

ruin    pest    destruction    injury    poison    death    harm    woe    evil   

Alane    Aquitaine    Ayn    Bahrain    Biscayne    Blaine    Cain    Chain    Champagne    Champaign   

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