Banish

What do we mean by banish?

To force to leave a country or place by official decree; exile. transitive verb

To drive away; expel. transitive verb

To outlaw; put under ban.

To condemn to exile by political or judicial authority; expel from or relegate to a country or a place, either permanently or for a time: often with objectives of both person and place: as, he was banished the kingdom; Ovid was banished to Tomi.

To send or drive away; expel; dismiss: with a person or thing as object: as, to banish sorrow; to banish an obnoxious person from one's presence or thoughts.

Synonyms Banish, Exile, Expel, expatriate, put away, are all used of removal by physical or moral compulsion; they all have a figurative as well as a literal use. To banish is, literally, to put out of a community or country by ban or civil interdict, and indicates a complete removal out of sight, perhaps to a distance. To exile is simply to cause to leave one's place or country, and is often used reflexively; it emphasizes the idea of leaving home, while banish emphasizes rather that of being forced by some authority to leave it: as, the bitterness of exile; banished to Siberia. Expel, literally, to drive out, means primarily to cast out forcibly and violently, and secondarily with disgrace: as, to expel from the chamber, or from college; he was expelled the country.

To condemn to exile, or compel to leave one's country, by authority of the ruling power. transitive verb

To drive out, as from a home or familiar place; -- used with from and out of. transitive verb

To drive away; to compel to depart; to dispel. transitive verb

To send someone away and forbid that person from returning. verb

To expel, especially from the mind. verb

Ban from a place of residence, as for punishment verb

Expel, as if by official decree verb

Expel from a community or group verb

Drive away verb

(heading) To send someone away and forbid that person from returning.

To expel, especially from the mind.

A slang word to describe when you are mad at a friend and you want to ignore them, or in other words "banish" Urban Dictionary

A time when someone is kiked out of any society due to stupidity or just cause no one likes them. Urban Dictionary

To get rid of forever. one day you decide to shun your girlfriend once and for all. Urban Dictionary

Dutch Slang, founded in Houten / Nieuwegein (Utreg). Banish means things as cool nice sweet sound, just a positive vibe. Nowadays its common all over Holland and in some parts of the UK they enclosed banish as urban lingo! Urban Dictionary

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”). Urban Dictionary

To get rid of. Urban Dictionary

Something to tell people when they piss you off. Urban Dictionary

To be exiled. Pronounced bænɪʃɛd (banished, not banisht) Urban Dictionary

Worse than death. Worse than Hell. If you are banished to Brazil, kiss your ass goodbye. Urban Dictionary

A man giving himself golden showers while hiding in the neighbor's bushes Urban Dictionary

Words that are spelled similarly to banish:
banish, vanish, danish, barish, manish, babish, anish, janish, benish, banis.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word banish:
banishment, limbo, misfortune, demons, banished, demonic, thee, dimension, forever, nexus, realm, thou, demon, mystical, spirits, ghosts, void, hulk, curse, spell, minds, evil, souls, beast, regina, hell, magical, shadow, memories, destroying, exile, superman, monsters, fails, chaos, darkness, ritual, punishment, ghost, destroy, spirit, fear, forth, sultan, earth, send, magic, dangerous, poem, kill, tribe, seeking, dark, survive, save, soul, tries, spiritual, hope, secure, returns, truth, effectively, god, entirely, plane, says.

Words that rhyme with banish:
spanish, vanish, ganesh, clannish, mannish, tannish, manish, pollyannish, janish, stanish, hanisch, anne knish, hanish, janisch, span ish, yanish.

Adjectives that are often used to describe banish:
french, good, high, cool, new, sanguine, highness, sec.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective banish:
fear, care, sorrow, poverty, ment, wisdom, grief, elaborateness, pain, sloth, skill, despair, ignorance, evil, doubt, music, uncertainty, sadness, error, night, waste, war, anxiety, shame, exploitation, age, gentleness, disease, strife, envy, misery, rest, hunger, religion, lust, worry, chance, boredom, liquor, amazement, love, drink, falsehood, pride, violence, egotism, arrogance, plague, existence, sobriety, fears, play, despondency, sofas, guilt, suspicion, strawberries, luxury, flattery, appendix, hate, statesmen, beauty, moderation, philosophy, fatigue, gloom, anger, fevers, nefia, superstition, idlenesse, ambition, vision, discontent, crime, shamefastness, danger, depression, myth.

Consonant match to banish:
burnish, bone ash, benesh, benish, benesch, ben ish.

Words that sound like banish:
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