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DictionarybaneSource of trouble
noun

bane

BAYN/beɪn/

A cause of persistent trouble, misery, or ruin.

The invasive bindweed is the gardener's bane.

An exasperated gardener struggles with invasive bindweed that has overrun and strangled his vegetable bed.
Etymology
baneOld Englishkiller; cause of death

Old English bana could name anything that caused death, not just a human killer. That deadly force broadened into something that causes ruin, misery, or persistent trouble.

In context

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flips the letter over it was the one thing i needed most the trouble that had been looking for me it was the inevitability of all things the bane and purpose of my existence
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More examples

  • Delays were her bane.
  • The noise became a bane.
  • He called the weeds the bane of his work.

Forms

bane · banes

Similar words

curse
A persistent burden, or a supernatural affliction.
nuisance
Usually a milder source of annoyance.