bane /beɪn/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[beyn] Pronunciation
–noun 1. a person or thing that ruins or spoils: Gambling was the bane of his existence.
2. a deadly poison (often used in combination, as in the names of poisonous plants): wolfsbane; henbane.
3. death; destruction; ruin.
4. Obsolete. that which causes death or destroys life: entrapped and drowned beneath the watery bane.
(e.g. Stupid people are the bane of my existence.)
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