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bane noun & verb.
[Old English bana = Old Frisian bona, Old Saxon, Old High German bano, Old Norse bani, from Germanic: ult. connections unkn.]
A. noun.
A slayer, a murderer. Long arch. rare. OE.
A thing which causes death or destroys life, esp. poison. Long arch. exc. in comb., as henbane, wolf's bane, etc. OE.
Tolkien The Ring gleamed and flickered as he held it up...'Behold Isildur's Bane!' said Elrond.
Murder, death, destruction. ME-M17.
Shakespeare Macbeth I will not be afraid of death and bane Till Birnam Forest come to Dunsinane.
Ruin, woe. Chiefly poet. LME.
R. Greene That sweet boy that wrought bright Venus bane.
A cause of ruin, harm, or trouble. L16.
Burke Theoretic plans of constitution have been the bane of France. C. Bront? She who had been the bane of his life. M. M. Kaye His attentions soon became the bane of the boy's existence.
Comb.: baneberry any of several Eurasian and N. American plants of the genus Actaea, of the buttercup family; the bitter poisonous fruit of these plants; banewort dial. any of various, mainly poisonous, plants, esp. lesser spearwort, Ranunculus flammula.
b. verb trans.
Hurt, harm, poison. arch. LME.
Esp. of poison: kill. Only in L16.
baneful adjective lethal; poisonous; pernicious: L16.