- a person or thing that ruins or spoils: Gambling was the bane of his existence.
- a deadly poison (often used in combination, as in the names of poisonous plants): wolfsbane;henbane.
- death; destruction; ruin.
- that which causes death or destroys life: entrapped and drowned beneath the watery bane.
- a person or thing that causes misery or distress (esp in the phrase bane of one's life)
- something that causes death or destruction
- a fatal poison
- (in combination)
- ruin or distress
- a Scot word for bone
