Topic Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus

Bane

Nouns
  • bane, curse
  • evil etc. Evil
  • hurtfulness etc. (badness) [Capability of producing evil. Bad qualities.] Badness
  • painfulness etc. (cause of pain) [Capability of giving pain; cause or source of pain] Painfulness
  • scourge etc. (punishment) [Instrument of punishment.] Scourge
  • white elephant. sting, fang, thorn, tang, bramble, brier, nettle. poison, toxin
  • teratogen
  • leaven, virus venom
  • arsenic
  • antimony, tartar emetic
  • strychnine, nicotine
  • miasma, miasm, mephitis, malaria, azote, sewer gas
  • pest. [poisonous substances, examples] Albany hemp, arsenious oxide, arsenious acid
  • bichloride of mercury
  • carbonic acid, carbonic gas
  • choke damp, corrosive sublimate, fire damp
  • hydrocyanic acid, cyanide, Prussic acid, hydrogen cyanide
  • marsh gas, ratsbane. [poisonous plants] hemlock, hellebore, nightshade, belladonna, henbane, aconite
  • banewort, bhang, ganja, hashish
  • Upas tree. [list of poisonous substances] Toxline (online). rust, worm, helminth [Med.], moth, moth and rust, fungus, mildew
  • dry rot
  • canker, cankerworm
  • cancer
  • torpedo
  • viper etc. (evil doer) [Maleficent being] Evil doer
  • demon etc. Demon. [Science of poisons] toxicology.