Definition of "bane" in Englisch

noun

1. (countable) A cause of misery or ruin.

   • the bane of one’s existence

2. (countable, archaic) Chiefly in the names of poisonous plants or substances: a poison.

3. (uncountable, chiefly poetic) Misery, woe; also, doom, ruin; or physical injury, harm.

4. (uncountable, UK, dialectal, veterinary medicine) A disease of sheep in which breakdown of tissue occurs; rot.

5. A person or thing that causes death or destruction; a killer, a murderer, a slayer.

6. Death; destruction; (countable) an instance of this.

verb

1. To physically injure (someone or something); to harm, to hurt.

2. To cause (someone) misery or ruin; to socially or spiritually injure (someone).

3. (UK, dialectal, veterinary medicine) To cause (sheep) a disease, especially the rot (“a disease in which breakdown of tissue occurs”).

4. (obsolete) To kill (a person or animal), especially by poison.

noun

1. (chiefly Scotland) Alternative spelling of bone.