bane
bayn
- n something causing misery or death
the bane of my life
- Injury is the bane of quick cricket. The intensity and the long haul is definite to make things worse.
- The current administration in Tehran is led by Ahmadinejad, whose confrontational stance has been the bane of Washington.
- So what could be more welcome than two new books assailing this bane of modern family life: The Homework Myth (Da Capo Press; 243 pages), by Alfie Kohn, the prolific, perpetual .