Definition of bane

"bane" in the noun sense

1. bane, curse, scourge, nemesis

something causing misery or death

"the bane of my life"

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Quotations for bane

Suspicion is the bane of friendship. [ Petrarch ]

A swine fatted hath eat its own bane. [ Proverb ]

Parent of wicked, bane of honest deeds. [ Prior ]

A man's wife is his blessing or his bane. [ Gaelic Proverb ]

World's use is cold, world's love is vain.
World's cruelty is bitter bane
But pain is not the fruit of pain. [ E. B. Browning ]

O heart, love is thy bane and thy antidote. [ Madame Dudevant ]

Let none admire
That riches grow in hell; that soil may best
Deserve the precious bane. [ Milton ]

You set saffron and there came up wolfs-bane. [ Proverb ]

Money, thou bane and bliss and source of woe,
Whence com'st thou, that thou art so fresh and fine?
I know thy parentage is base and low:
Man found thee poor and dirty in a mine. [ Herbert ]

Levity of behavior is the bane of all that is good and virtuous. [ Seneca ]

Want of occupation is the bane of both men and women, perhaps more especially of the latter. [ Horace Mann ]

Study is the bane of boyhood, the aliment of youth, the indulgence of manhood, and the restorative of age. [ Landor ]

Study is the bane of childhood, the aliment of youth, the indulgence of manhood, and the restoration of age. [ Walter Savage Landor ]

Men are atheistical because they are first vicious, and question the truth of Christianity because they bane the practice. [ South ]

bane in Scrabble®

The word bane is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 6

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters bane:

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bane in Words With Friends™

The word bane is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 8

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters bane:

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Word Growth involving bane

Shorter words in bane

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Longer words containing bane

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