| Main Entry: | bane |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cause of misery |
Synonyms: |
affliction, blight, burden, bête noir, calamity, curse, despair, destruction, disaster, downfall, fatal attraction, misery, nuisance, pest, plague, poison, ruin, ruination, scourge, torment, trial, trouble, undoing, venom, woe |
Antonyms: |
advantage, blessing, fortune, good luck |
| Concept: | Bane. |
| Category: | 2. Subservience to Ends; Degree of Subservience |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
bane, curse; evil; hurtfulness (badness); painfulness (cause of pain); scourge (punishment); damnosa hereditas; white elephant., sting, fang, thorn, tang, bramble, brier, nettle., poison, leaven, virus, venom; arsenic; antimony, tartar emetic; strychnine, nicotine; miasm, mephitis, malaria, azote, sewer gas; pest., Albany hemp, arsenious oxide, arsenious acid; bichloride of mercury; carbonic acid, carbonic gas; choke damp, corrosive sublimate, fire damp; hydrocyanic acid, cyanide, Prussic acid, hydrogen cyanide; marsh gas, nux vomica, ratsbane., rust, worm, helminth, moth, moth and rust, fungus, mildew; dry rot; canker, cankerworm; cancer; torpedo; viper (evil doer); demon., hemlock, hellebore, nightshade, belladonna, henbane, aconite; banewort, bhang, ganja, hashish; Upas tree., [Science of poisons] toxicology.
-adjectives
-phrases
bibere venenum in auro.
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Antonyms: |
remedy |
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