Sekirov Dictionary

bane

/beɪn/

noun6

  1. A cause of misery or ruin.
  2. (literary) Misery, woe; also, doom, ruin; or physical injury, harm.
  3. (dialect, UK) A disease of sheep in which breakdown of tissue occurs; rot.
  4. (no longer used) A person or thing that causes death or destruction; a killer, a murderer, a slayer.
  5. (no longer used) Death; destruction; (countable) an instance of this.
  6. (no longer used) Chiefly in the names of poisonous plants or substances: a poison.

verb4

  1. (dialect, UK) To cause (sheep) a disease, especially the rot (“a disease in which breakdown of tissue occurs”).
  2. (no longer used) To physically injure (someone or something); to harm, to hurt.
  3. (figurative, no longer used) To cause (someone) misery or ruin; to socially or spiritually injure (someone).
  4. (no longer used) To kill (a person or animal), especially by poison.
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baned · baning · banes · baneth

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