bane
/beɪn/noun
Middle School
1
A cause of misery or ruin.
2
Chiefly in the names of poisonous plants or substances: a poison.
3
Misery, woe; also, doom, ruin; or physical injury, harm.
4
A disease of sheep in which breakdown of tissue occurs; rot.
5
A person or thing that causes death or destruction; a killer, a murderer, a slayer.
6
Death; destruction; (countable) an instance of this.
Thesaurus
Sound Patterns & Rhymes
Alliteration
Words starting with the same consonant sound — used in poetry and prose to create rhythm, emphasis, and memorable phrasing (e.g. “Peter Piper picked”)
Assonance
Words sharing similar vowel sounds regardless of starting letter — creates internal melody in writing
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