Bane

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun Destruction; death.

II. Bane ·noun A disease in sheep, commonly termed the rot.

III. Bane ·noun Any cause of ruin, or lasting injury; harm; woe.

IV. Bane ·vt To be the bane of; to Ruin.

V. Bane ·noun That which destroys life, ·esp. poison of a deadly quality.