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What does baneful mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word baneful? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Exceedingly harmful; causing harm, death, ruin.
  2. Deadly or sinister.
  3. Portending disaster.
  4. (archaic) Poisonous.
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One must learn to feel concerned for those involved in the practice so the training will not be baneful for their body and their health.
Even the incredible traffic jam that held the bride's parents back was unable to have any baneful impact over the joy that reigned there.
In many places in Britain, it was customary to light huge bonfires in the fields to ward off baneful influences, often accompanied by much partying.
It is a possible way out from the baneful influence of race on Malaysian politics.
Extremists from all over the world have always joined together and helped each others in order to achieve their baneful aims.
This is so that Adam's life does not sink into a sterile and, in the end, baneful encounter with himself.

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