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Scourge vs Bane - What's the difference?

scourge | bane |

As nouns the difference between scourge and bane

is that scourge is a source of persistent trouble such as pestilence that causes pain and suffering or widespread destruction while bane is a cause of misery or death; an affliction or curse.

As verbs the difference between scourge and bane

is that scourge is to strike with a scourge, to flog while bane is to kill, especially by poison; to be the poison of.

scourge

English

Noun

  • (uncountable) A source of persistent trouble such as pestilence that causes pain and suffering or widespread destruction.
  • A means to inflict such pain or destruction.
  • * Shakespeare
  • What scourge for perjury / Can this dark monarchy afford false Clarence?
  • * {{quote-magazine, title=Towards the end of poverty
  • , date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838, page=11, magazine=(The Economist) citation , passage=America’s poverty line is $63 a day for a family of four. In the richer parts of the emerging world $4 a day is the poverty barrier. But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 ([…]): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.}}
  • A whip, often of leather.
  • * Chapman
  • Up to coach then goes / The observed maid, takes both the scourge and reins.

    Verb

  • To strike with a scourge , to flog.
  • See also

    * (pedia)

    bane

    English

    (wikipedia bane)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) bane, from (etyl) bana, from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A cause of misery or death; an affliction or curse
  • the bane of my existence
  • * Herbert
  • Money, thou bane of bliss, and source of woe.
  • (dated) Poison, especially any of several poisonous plants
  • (obsolete) A killer, murderer, slayer
  • (obsolete) destruction; death
  • * Milton
  • The cup of deception spiced and tempered to their bane .
  • A disease of sheep; the rot.
  • Antonyms
    * (affliction or curse) boon
    Derived terms
    * baneberry * baneful * boon and bane * wolfsbane

    Verb

    (ban)
  • To kill, especially by poison; to be the poison of.
  • To be the bane of.
  • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) northern dialect ban, from (etyl)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (chiefly, Scotland) A bone
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