Definitions for bane

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Spelling: [beyn]
IPA: /beɪn/

Bane is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 34 anagrams from letters in bane (aben).

Definitions for bane

noun

  1. a person or thing that ruins or spoils:
  2. a deadly poison (often used in combination, as in the names of poisonous plants):
  3. death; destruction; ruin.
  4. Obsolete. that which causes death or destroys life:

Origin of bane

before 1000; Middle English; Old English bana slayer; cognate with Old Norse bani death, murderer, Old Frisian bona murder, Old Saxon bano murderer, Old High German bano slayer, bana death; a

Examples for bane

Bigness is the bane of any creative or responsive activity, and publishing is no exception.

These garments, made by my mother's own hands, had long been the bane of my existence.

Every bane has its corresponding antidote; if so, there may be physic even for a philter.

The agenda is likely to focus on Syria, which has been a bane to the pope since taking office last March.

Outsiders are the bane of the police as of other professions.

This problem has a long history and is the bane of drug prevention experts.

It was the bane of a low connexion poisoned all hope of recovery.

Hockney saw the object that would become the bane of office secretaries everywhere as bringing him closer to his art.

The scorn of that old woman at Houghton, had been the bane of her existence.

bane said this is the real reason for SIGAR reluctance to let the Shadman case go.

Word Value for bane
Scrable

6

Words with friends

8

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