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bane /beɪn/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[beyn] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun 1. a person or thing that ruins or spoils: Gambling was the bane of his existence.
2. a deadly poison (often used in combination, as in the names of poisonous plants): wolfsbane; henbane.
3. death; destruction; ruin.
4. Obsolete. that which causes death or destroys life: entrapped and drowned beneath the watery bane.


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[Origin: bef. 1000; ME; OE bana slayer; c. ON bani death, murderer, OFris bona murder, OS bano murderer, OHG bano slayer, bana death; akin to OE benn, Goth banja wound]
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American Heritage Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This bane (bān) Pronunciation Key
n.
Fatal injury or ruin: "Hath some fond lover tic'd thee to thy bane?" (George Herbert).

A cause of harm, ruin, or death: "Obedience,/Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth,/Makes slaves of men" (Percy Bysshe Shelley).
A source of persistent annoyance or exasperation: "The spellings of foreign names are often the bane of busy copy editors" (Norm Goldstein).
A deadly poison.

[Middle English, destroyer, from Old English bana; see gwhen- in Indo-European roots.]


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bane

O.E. bana "slayer, murderer," from P.Gmc. *banon, cognate with *banja- "wound" (cf. O.Fris. bona "murderer," O.H.G. bana "murder," Goth. banja "stroke, wound"), from PIE base *bhen- "to strike, wound" (cf. Avestan banta "ill"). Modern sense of "that which causes ruin or woe" is from 1577.


Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper

Wow AJ, maybe you could have just asked him if he meant bans.

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Rebel,

If you hope to be taken seriously, I suggest you should take the time to read your post before hitting submit. Running a simple spell check or even a quick scan would go a long way towards people actually reading the rest of your post.

Or at least fix it once someone points out an error instead of accusing him of using weed.

That is funny!

(Sorry, my daughter got carried away with the smiles)

ourkid2000 wrote:Rebel,

If you hope to be taken seriously, I suggest you should take the time to read your post before hitting submit. Running a simple spell check or even a quick scan would go a long way towards people actually reading the rest of your post.