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Banish   /bˈænɪʃ/   Listen
Banish

verb
(past & past part. banished; pres. part. banishing)
1.
Expel from a community or group.  Synonyms: ban, blackball, cast out, ostracise, ostracize, shun.
2.
Ban from a place of residence, as for punishment.  Synonym: ban.
3.
Expel, as if by official decree.  Synonyms: bar, relegate.
4.
Drive away.  "Banish gloom"



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"Banish" Quotes from Famous Books



... peasant poet, whose songs did as much to bring back the sunshine into everyday Scotch life as the Reformer's homilies did to banish it, Mr Stevenson writes with sympathy and tenderness. For the work he is full of admiration; for the man, whose circumstances and temperament made his whole life a difficult walking in slippery places where the best of men could hardly have refrained from falling, he has a gentle understanding, ...
— Robert Louis Stevenson • Margaret Moyes Black

... literature, and of politics. The public were to be conducted insensibly into so different a track from that to which they had been hitherto accustomed. Hence politics were admitted into his paper. But it remained for the chaster genius of Addison to banish this painful topic from his elegant pages. The writer in polite letters felt himself degraded by sinking into the diurnal narrator of political events, which so frequently originate in rumours and party fictions. From this ...
— Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3) • Isaac D'Israeli

... acknowledge his right as her husband. He had done her a deep wrong; he had deceived her cruelly; and she deemed that she had a right to repudiate a bond tainted by fraud; but she knew that she had no right to banish him from his family circle—to dwell, under false pretences, by the hearth of ...
— The Golden Calf • M. E. Braddon

... the folly and indecency of the habit, or the waste of property, health and life which it occasions, it is time for the Patriot, the Philanthropist and the Christian, to put forth united, vigorous and systematic efforts to banish this injurious and disgusting habit from ...
— A Disquisition on the Evils of Using Tobacco - and the Necessity of Immediate and Entire Reformation • Orin Fowler

... quiet for a considerable time. There were no more signals then, but they could not banish the feeling that emissitious Mexicans were watching them from the shadows. Directly noises were heard at the tents and a ...
— Boy Scouts in Mexico; or On Guard with Uncle Sam • G. Harvey Ralphson


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