banish Definition
ban·ish (ban′is̸h)
transitive verb
- to exile
- to send or put away; get rid of to banish cares, to banish wrinkles
Etymology: ME banischen < extended stem of OFr banir < ML *bannire < Frank *bannjan, to order or prohibit under penalty < ban, akin to ban
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banish
v.
To condemn to exile
exile, expatriate, deport, transport, ostracize, excommunicate, proscribe, drive out, cast out, outlaw, extradite, sequester, isolate, relegate, expel, oust, dismiss, send to Coventry*, put a price on*. To remove completely
banish implies removal from a country (not necessarily one's own) as a formal punishment; exile implies compulsion to leave one's own country, either because of a formal decree or through force of circumstance; expatriate suggests more strongly voluntary exile and often implies the acquiring of citizenship in another country; to deport is to send (an alien) out of the country, because the alien either entered unlawfully or is regarded as undesirable; to transport, in this connection, is to banish (a convict) to a penal colony; ostracize, which historically referred to temporary banishment of a citizen in ancient Greece by popular vote, today implies forced exclusion from society or a certain group by general consent ostracized for scandalous behavior
banish Usage Examples
Preposition: for
year: Banished for a thousand years by an ancient ritual that sent their leader to the depths of Hell.
Object
- specter: Will be good to see if we can banish the specter of last years thrashing, then we weren't even at.. .
- boredom: Banish boredom this summer The summer hols are here and so is the problem of keeping the children amused.
- demon: Before the next victim is claimed, the remaining friends must find how to banish the demon and one of them holds the key.
- thought: Now listen, banish the thought - banish the thought!
- ghost: But it's not enough to banish the ghost of Led Zeppelin, finds Sylvie Simmons.
- fear: It banished the fear of becoming ill that had for years blighted the lives of millions of people.
Followed by an intransitive particle
out: On the Lord's Day all disorder became quite banished out of the town.
Modifying Another Word
- forever: The Tory disaster you thought you had banished forever lurks just around the corner.
- effectively: The specter of repression is most effectively banished by doing nothing.
- finally: It finally banished the memory of my Formula 3000 accident in 1988.
- quickly: The rather hopeful image of the " swimmer " is quickly banished.
- soon: Bill was soon banished from the main cabin on account of his snoring.
- completely: On the other hand, the older arguments are not completely banished by this work.
Preposition: from
- land: Presumably the loser would be banished from the land.
- city: If you were excommunicated you were banished from the city.
- reatta: Not he actually banished from reatta a variety of.
- kingdom: For the evil spell was now broken and the little serfs would surely be banished from the kingdom forever.
- country: In Russia they are put against the wall, exiled to slow death in famine districts, or banished from the country.
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