bane
noun
[ beɪn ]
• a cause of great distress or annoyance.
• "the telephone was the bane of my life"
Similar:
scourge,
ruin,
death,
plague,
ruination,
destruction,
torment,
torture,
menace,
suffering,
pain,
distress,
hardship,
cross to bear,
burden,
thorn in one's flesh/side,
bitter pill,
affliction,
calamity,
despair,
trouble,
misery,
woe,
tribulation,
misfortune,
nuisance,
pest,
headache,
trial,
blight,
curse,
nightmare,
• something, especially poison, which causes death.
Origin:
Old English bana ‘thing causing death, poison’, of Germanic origin.
