Crossword-Solution: BANE 4 letters, 212 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 6

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Word Word Type Definition
Bane n. That which destroys life, esp. poison of a deadly quality.
Bane n. Destruction; death.
Bane n. Any cause of ruin, or lasting injury; harm; woe.
Bane n. A disease in sheep, commonly termed the rot.
Bane v. t. To be the bane of; to ruin.

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BANE anagram BEAN, BENA, EBAN, NABE

We have 212 clues for the answer “BANE”

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". . . the __ of my existence" 1 answer
"I will not be afraid of death and ___": "Macbeth" 1 answer
"It's the ___ of my existence" 1 answer
"The Dark Knight Rises" villain 1 answer
"They're the ___ of my existence" 1 answer
"This is the ___ of my existence" 1 answer
"You are the ___ of my existence!" 1 answer
"__ of all genius" (power, per Shelley) 1 answer
A cause of ruin 1 answer
A thing that ruins or spoils. 1 answer
BONE (Scot.) 1 answer
Batman rival 1 answer
Bringer of ill 1 answer
Cause for distress 1 answer
Cause of destruction 1 answer
Cause of great annoyance 1 answer
Cause of great distress 1 answer
Cause of one's undoing 1 answer
Cause of woe 1 answer
Constant annoyance 1 answer
Constant nuisance 1 answer
Curse or poison 1 answer
Deadly harm: Poet. 1 answer
Downfall agent 1 answer
Downfall cause 1 answer
Fatal mischief. 1 answer
Flea, to Fido 1 answer
Follower of hen and rats 1 answer
Follower of rats or hen 1 answer
Garlic, to a vampire 1 answer
Harmful influence. 1 answer
Harmful thing 1 answer
Hen's tail 1 answer
Ill bringer 1 answer
It may be of your existence 1 answer
Killer dog's name in the Diane Whipple case 1 answer
One making your life miserable 1 answer
Opposite of 5D 1 answer
Opposite of boon 1 answer
Pernicious element. 1 answer
Pernicious feature. 1 answer
Plant-name ender 1 answer
Poetic "ruin." 1 answer
Poison or curse 1 answer
Poison: Poet. 1 answer
Poisonous-plant suffix 1 answer
Problem source 1 answer
Proverbial thorn 1 answer
RUIN (poet.) 1 answer
Reason for ruin 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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Sentences with BANE (5)

With what delight could I have walkt thee round If I could joy in aught, sweet interchange Of Hill and Vallie, Rivers, Woods and Plaines, Now Land, now Sea, & Shores with Forrest crownd, Rocks, Dens, and Caves; but I in none of these Find place or refuge; and the more I see Pleasures about me, so much more I feel Torment within me, as from the hateful siege Of contraries; all good to me becomes Bane, and in Heav’n much worse would be my state.
Paradise Lost John Milton 1991
Come Creon then, come all the mightiest In Thebes to seek me; for if ye my friends, Championed by those dread Powers indigenous, Espouse my cause; then for the State ye gain A great deliverer, for my foemen bane.
The Oedipus Trilogy Sophocles 2000
But this long debt of confidence, due from me to him, whose bane and ruin I have been, shall at length be paid.
The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1992
Doug had had to eat his words from years earlier more times than he cared to remember, but Scott's head had not swelled to the size of his fan club, which was the bane of so many suc- cessful writers.
Terminal Compromise Winn Schwartau 1993
But oft and again Comes the ship from the main, And we came once more And no lading we bore But the point and the edge, And the ironed ledge, And the bolt and the bow, And the bane of the foe.
The Well at the World's End William Morris 2008

Quotes with BANE (3)

People," Geralt turned his head, "like to invent monsters and monstrosities. Then they seem less monstrous themselves. When they get blind-drunk, cheat, steal, beat their wives, starve an old woman, when they kill a trapped fox with an axe or riddle the last existing unicorn with arrows, they like to think that the Bane entering cottages at daybreak is more monstrous than they are. They feel better then. They find it easier to live.
Andrzej Sapkowski The Last Wish
Malachi scowled. "I don't remember the Clave inviting you into the Glass City, Magnus Bane.""They didn't," Magnus said. "Your wards are down.""Really?" the Consul's voice dripped sarcasm. "I hadn't noticed." Magnus looked concerned. "That's terrible. Someone should have told you." He glanced at Luke. "Tell him the wards are down.
Cassandra Clare City of Glass
He gazed amusedly down the table at Tessa. “You’re the shape-changer, aren’t you?” he said. “Magnus Bane told me about you. No mark on you at all, they say.” Tessa swallowed and looked him straight in the eye. They were discordantly human eyes, ordinary in his extraordinary face. “No. No mark.” He grinned around his fork. “I do suppose they’ve looked everywhere?” “I’m sure Will’s tried,” said Jessamine in a bored tone.
Cassandra Clare Clockwork Prince
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