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   banish

   /ˈbanɪʃ/

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   • 1. send (someone) away from a country or place as an official punishment: "a number of people were banished to Siberia for political crimes" Similar exileexpeldeportejectexpatriateextraditerepatriatetransportcast outoustdrive awayevictthrow outexcludeshut outbanexcommunicateostracizeOpposite admitreadmit
   • ▪ get rid of (something unwanted): "all thoughts of romance were banished from her head" Similar dispeldismissdispersescatterdissipatedrive awaydrive offchase awayroutoustcast outshut outget rid ofquellallayeliminatedislodgeOpposite engender

   Word Origin late Middle English: from Old French baniss-, lengthened stem of banir; ultimately of Germanic origin and related to ban1.

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   What does he was banished mean?

   • He was banished to an uninhabited island for a year. They were banished (= sent out) from the library for making a noise. Try to banish all thoughts of revenge from your mind. You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: He was banished from his sister's house. Their goal is to banish war forever.

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   What does banishen mean?

   • 1. To force to leave a country or place by official decree; exile: The spy was found guilty of treason and banished from the country. 2. To drive away; expel: We banished all our doubts and fears. [Middle English banishen, from Old French banir, baniss-, of Germanic origin; see bhā- in Indo-European roots .] ban′ish·er n. ban′ish·ment n.

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   What is the difference between banish and exile?

   • banish implies compulsory removal from a country not necessarily one's own. exile may imply compulsory removal or an enforced or voluntary absence from one's own country. deport implies sending out of the country an alien who has illegally entered or whose presence is judged inimical to the public welfare.

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   What does it mean to banish someone?

   • banished To be rejected and ignored; shunned. Deemed irrelevant or intolerable. Can be used to describe people, ideas, objects, etc. Can be used in verb form (“banish”). *Person A being annoying* Person B, finally snapping: aiight, get out.

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   Banished is the past tense and past participle of banish, which means to send someone away, especially from their country, and not allow them to come back. Learn more about the verb, its synonyms, and its usage in sentences from the Cambridge English Corpus.

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   Banish means to send someone away, especially from their country, and not allow them to come back, or to get rid of something completely. Learn more about the verb banish, its synonyms, related words, and usage examples from the Cambridge Dictionary.

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   Banish means to require by authority to leave a country or to drive out or remove from a place. See synonyms, examples, word history, and related entries for banish.

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   Banish means to expel, send away, or get rid of someone or something. Learn the word origin, pronunciation, and usage of banish with synonyms and example sentences.

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   to send someone away, especially from their country, and not allow them to come back: He was banished to an uninhabited island for a year. They were banished (= sent out) from the library for making a noise. to get rid of something completely: Try to banish all thoughts of revenge from your mind. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases.

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   To banish is to get rid of. Think very carefully before you banish someone from your group. Someday, you may want that person around again. Banish rhymes with vanish, which is exactly what happens when you banish someone. Suppose a king, angry with some of his subjects, banishes them.

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   Banished means to force someone or something to leave a place or country by official decree, or to drive away or expel. See the origin, synonyms, translations and usage of the verb banish in different contexts.