Word Meanings - BANE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Icel. bani death, murderer, OHG. bana murder, bano murderer, murder, OIr. bath death, benim I strike. 2. Destruction; death. The cup of deception spiced and tempered to their bane. Milton. 3. Any cause of ruin, or lasting injury; harm; woe. Money,

Additional info about word: BANE

Icel. bani death, murderer, OHG. bana murder, bano murderer, murder, OIr. bath death, benim I strike. 2. Destruction; death. The cup of deception spiced and tempered to their bane. Milton. 3. Any cause of ruin, or lasting injury; harm; woe. Money, thou bane of bliss, and source of woe. Herbert. 4. A disease in sheep, commonly termed the rot. Syn. -- Poison; ruin; destruction; injury; pest.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of BANE)

• Curse
• Malediction
• execration
• imprecation
• denunciation
• anathema
• bane
• blight
• Scourge
• Punishment
• curse
• undoing
• visitation

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of BANE)

• Bless

Related words: (words related to BANE)

• UNDONE
  Not done or performed; neglected.
• ANATHEMATISM
  Anathematization. We find a law of Justinian forbidding anathematisms to be pronounced against the Jewish Hellenists. J. Taylor.
• BLESSING
  A gift. Gen. xxxiii. 11. 5. Grateful praise or worship. (more info) 1. The act of one who blesses. 2. A declaration of divine favor, or an invocation imploring divine favor on some or something; a benediction; a wish of happiness pronounces.
• VISITATION
  The act of a naval commander who visits, or enters on board, a vessel belonging to another nation, for the purpose of ascertaining her character and object, but without claiming or exercising a right of searching the vessel. It is, however, usually
• CURSE
  1. An invocation of, or prayer for, harm or injury; malediction. Lady, you know no rules of charity, Which renders good for bad, blessings for curses. Shak. 2. Evil pronounced or invoked upon another, solemnly, or in passion; subjection to, or
• ANATHEMATIZE
  To pronounce an anathema against; to curse. Hence: To condemn publicly as something accursed. Milton.
• UNDOING
  1. The reversal of what has been done. 2. Ruin. "The utter undoing of some." Hooker.
• CURSEDLY
  In a cursed manner; miserably; in a manner to be detested; enormously.
• UNDOUBLE
  To unfold, or render single.
• IMPRECATION
  The act of imprecating, or unvoking evil upon any one; a player that a curse or calamnity may fall on any one; a curse. Men cowered like slaves before such horrid imprecations. Motley. Syn. -- Malediction; curse; execration; anathema.
• UNDO
  1. To reverse, as what has been done; to annul; to bring to naught. What's done can not be undone. Shak. To-morrow, ere the setting sun, She 'd all undo that she had done. Swift. 2. To loose; to open; to take to piece; to unfasten; to untie; hence,
• CURSED
  Deserving a curse; execrable; hateful; detestable; abominable. Let us fly this cursed place. Milton. This cursed quarrel be no more renewed. Dryden.
• MALEDICTION
  A proclaiming of evil against some one; a cursing; imprecation; a curse or execration; -- opposed to benediction. No malediction falls from his tongue. Longfellow. Syn. -- Cursing; curse; execration; imprecation; denunciation; anathema.
• BLESSEDLY
  Happily; fortunately; joyfully. We shall blessedly meet again never to depart. Sir P. Sidney.
• ANATHEMATIZER
  One who pronounces an anathema. Hammond.
• ANATHEMATIC; ANATHEMATICAL
  Pertaining to, or having the nature of, an anathema. -- A*nath`e*mat"ic*al*ly, adv.
• CURSER
  One who curses.
• UNDOMESTICATE
  To make wild or roving.
• UNDOUBTED
  Not doubted; not called in question; indubitable; indisputable; as, undoubted proof; undoubted hero. -- Un*doubt"ed*ly, adv.
• UNDOER
  One who undoes anything; especially, one who ruins another.
• CURBLESS
  Having no curb or restraint.
• KATTIMUNDOO
  A caoutchouc like substance obtained from the milky juice of the East Indian Euphorbia Kattimundoo. It is used as a cement.
• CONSTABLESS
  The wife of a constable.
• RIBLESS
  Having no ribs.
• LIMBLESS
  Destitute of limbs.
• THUMBLESS
  Without a thumb. Darwin.
• PRECURSE
  A forerunning. Shak.
• SECUNDO-GENITURE
  A right of inheritance belonging to a second son; a property or possession so inherited. The kingdom of Naples . . . was constituted a secundo-geniture of Spain. Bancroft.
• CUBLESS
  Having no cubs. Byron.
• SHRUBLESS
  having no shrubs. Byron.
• HERBLESS
  Destitute of herbs or of vegetation. J. Warton.