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# bane

«bane» in Mova's school dictionary: **a person or thing that causes trouble, ruin or death** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (banes)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A bane is a person or thing that causes trouble, ruin or death. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bane/#m1)

2) (old use) A bane is a deadly poison or a cause of death, as in «rat bane». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bane/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in fairy tales and legends a bane is the thing that finally brings down a hero or a monster

### examples

- The dragon's bane was a brave hero. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bane/#x1)
- Noise was the bane of his life. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bane/#x2)
- The cold proved the bane of the old king. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bane/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «bane» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bane/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.