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Ruinous thing
Answer for the clue "Ruinous thing ", 4 letters:
bane
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Word definitions for bane in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Colds are the bane of singers. ▪ Consequently, what forms the bane of middle-aged women's vanity can be used to your advantage. ▪ Knee injuries are the bane of the karate competitor's life. ▪ Most alpine strawberry varieties ...
Usage examples of bane.
Bane, but a man well nigh as old as his uncle, though he hath not made men tremble so sore, albeit he be far the better man, a good warrior, a wise leader, a reiver and lifter well wrought at all points.
This, as you have no doubt guessed, is cito yen ne Kitty Faucon, the bane of my life.
Then the Bane moved on to Fleat and Pease, calling them sister, and offering them the bowl.
Yet if he did not goif he just stayed herewhat of Bane, whose body and world these really were?
Sonne wolde brenne so breme that hit wolde roste us all lyk mete in a forneys, and wolde be our bane.
And when the soul has paid a visit to Love, perhaps it was no more than briefly in a doorway, then a baby, marriage lines, a dreary flat in a viewless street, bills sweat, lust with clipped wings and a woman who quickly becomes the bane of life, a deadly boring woman.
Always when Aye go out with my girl, he bane yump on me and he always lick me.
If the demonic Black Dog appeared to herald the death of a member of some noble families, what more appropriate Bane of the Emersons could there be than a large, brindled Egyptian cat?
In the week since they had come to serve at Crydee, the boys had discovered their bane: Housecarl Samuel.
Banes Merse and Alnar, and Elien and Criah, both from the FlatRock Clan, and Relm, from the Pine Walk Clan.
If hosen and shoon thou gavest nane, The whins shall prick thee intil the bane.
Discoverie of a gaping gulf whereinto England is like to be Swallowed by another French marriage, if the Lord forbid not the Banes by letting Her Majestie see the sin and punishment thereof.
For thus Hera devised it, that Aeaean Medea might come to Ioleus for a bane to Pelias, forsaking her native land.
But only the strongest of the male Banes are allowed to complete the transformation to Horned Ones.
Raum hesitated a little, then began by explaining the significance of the groves to the Avar people and how those Avar children who had the potential to become Banes had to be presented and bonded to the Mother.