Meaning of bane in English:
bane
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noun
1usually in singular A cause of great distress or annoyance.
‘the telephone was the bane of my life’- ‘His dyslexia - the bane of his life - meant that he found writing difficult, and he preferred giving papers at meetings.’
- ‘On the other hand there are the low waist pants - the bane of my life.’
- ‘In fact the bane of my life was a cousin and his birthday parties.’
- ‘The 73, the busiest bus-route in London, was the bane of my life when I lived in Stoke Newington.’
- ‘Despite the financial security an older man can offer younger women, their eccentricities can be the bane of her life.’
- ‘They had to be counted, bagged and labelled and they were the bane of my life.’
- ‘This issue has absolutely been the bane of my life in this country for 32 years.’
- ‘It was the bane of her life, or at least it was presently.’
- ‘It's the bane of my life, and probably yours too.’
- ‘Even though he considered his older double the bane of his life, he seemed unable to ignore him.’
- ‘This was because opposable thumbs or not, buttons would forever be the bane of his life.’
- ‘You have been the bane of my life ever since you were born with your whining and your constant need of me!’
- ‘That evil is malevolent violence, a curse that is the bane of our human existence.’
- ‘When juvenile nuisance and disorder are the bane of so many neighbourhoods already, some people are not only fuelling this curse, but actually making a profit from it.’
- ‘I have to say that, as a mother, fancy dress is the bane of my life. This week my daughters require no fewer than four outfits, one each for a school event and two more for a party.’
- ‘Critics are seen as the bane of writers' lives, torturing their intuitively wrought texts by dissection with a sharp set of surgical knives.’
- ‘Those bad tempered personnel manning counters in the revenue offices will no longer be the bane of citizens' existence.’
- ‘All I am to him is the bane of his existence, the blight of his life, the central focus of why he hates his job and wants to kill himself.’
- ‘Cell phones make it much easier to suffer through the brutal traffic jams that are the bane of city life around the world.’
- ‘The problem of color description has been a bane to mineralogists.’
scourge, ruin, death, plague, ruination, destructionView synonyms2 archaic usually in singular Something, especially poison, which causes death.
poison, toxinView synonyms
Origin
Old English bana ‘thing causing death, poison’, of Germanic origin.
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