banish
[verb]
Synonyms:
- expel, deport, eject, evict, exile, outlaw
- get rid of, ban, cast out, discard, dismiss, oust, remove

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Related Words: disfellowship, excommunicate, rusticate, debar, exclude, shut out, drive out, eject, evict, turn out, bump, can, cashier, discharge, dismiss, fire, put out, sack, blackball, blacklist, boycott

[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲

ban‧ish /ˈbænɪʃ/ verb [transitive]
[Date: 1300-1400; Language: Old French; Origin: banir]

1. to not allow someone or something to stay in a particular place
banish somebody/something from/to something
I was banished to a distant corridor.

2. to send someone away permanently from their country or the area where they live, especially as an official punishment Synonym : exile
banish somebody from/to
Thousands were banished to Siberia.

3. literary to try to stop thinking about something or someone
banish the memory/thought/image etc (of somebody/something)
They tried to banish the memory from their minds.
—banishment noun [uncountable]

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