Bane

1. v. t. To be the bane of; to ruin.
2. n. That which destroys life, esp. poison of a deadly quality.
3. n. Destruction; death.
4. n. Any cause of ruin, or lasting injury; harm; woe.
5. n. A disease in sheep, commonly termed the rot.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.