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bane

/beyn/US // beɪn //UK // (beɪn) //

祸根,祸害,祸首,祸水东引

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person or thing that ruins or spoils: Gambling was the bane of his existence.
    • : a deadly poison: wolfsbane; henbane.
    • : death; destruction; ruin.
    • : Obsolete. that which causes death or destroys life: entrapped and drowned beneath the watery bane.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nouncause of misery
Antonyms

Examples

  • Reposting is a common bane on Reddit and involves sharing the content of any type, pictures, gifs, videos previously shared by the original poster on another subreddit.

  • Sleet is often the bane of winter weather forecasting in our region.

  • Friend drama has always been the bane of teen and tween girl existence.

  • You may never have heard of it, but it is the bane of new brands trying to create brand awareness or make headways into industries dominated by big guns.

  • “Any more uncertainty on any level is just the bane of these state agencies’ existence,” Evermore said.

  • Bane said this is the real reason for SIGAR reluctance to let the Shadman case go.

  • Hockney saw the object that would become the bane of office secretaries everywhere as bringing him closer to his art.

  • Zac kept walking around the set doing Bane impersonations—“I was born in the dark!”

  • This problem has a long history and is the bane of drug prevention experts.

  • The agenda is likely to focus on Syria, which has been a bane to the pope since taking office last March.

  • Seems as if K. was beginning to come up against those political forces which have ever been a British Commander's bane.

  • Love of money was throughout the bane of Loftus, and went far to neutralise the good effects of his learning and eloquence.

  • He is presumed here to have been killed by Hother, who is therefore called “the bane of Gelder.”

  • It might be good for hogs, but it was a form of monks' bane, as it were.

  • Anything with my hands but I bane not much good on head work.