States and conditions
Synonyms for bane
The synonym for bane recorded in this bank is curse, in the sense "something causing misery or death". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.
The synonym for bane
- cursenoun, in the sense "something causing misery or death"
A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for bane.
something causing misery or death
The bane of my life.
The true synonym
curse
Same sentence, swapped: The curse of my life.
Close but different
Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.
- martyrdom
- attack
- mischief
Where bane turns up in the game
bane is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where bane is the trap
- cursenoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is jinx, in the sense "an evil spell", and bane is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play bane
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so bane reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other states and conditions words at Ridgeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. bane carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.