banish
verb
transitive verb
Stringfellow Barr 
Synonyms
- deport
- displace
- exile
- expatriate
- relegate
- transport
Example Sentences
Jamie Ballard, Woman's Day, 18 Aug. 2022 The right one can banish the ambivalent scent of body wash and pod coffee and imbue your cubicle and conference room with a sense of intention. Justin Fenner, Robb Report, 18 May 2022 And when a phone went off — loud — in the middle of Fields’ final confrontation with the dentist, the court deputy looked ready to banish the culprit for the remainder of the proceedings. Matt Sullivan, Rolling Stone, 2 Aug. 2022 Whether dealing with melasma, post-inflammatory hyperpigmentation, or any kind of dark spot that won't fade, many incredible products on the market can banish them for good. ELLE, 22 July 2022 Your work has to stand out, or the audience will banish it (rightly) to the black hole of blandness. Lindsay Tjepkema, Forbes, 15 June 2022 While the court’s rulings are considered credible, it is perceived at times as rubber-stamp for the outcome of a civil war or power struggle by helping the victors banish their opponents to a faraway prison. New York Times, 10 Apr. 2022 To banish tired eyes, caffeine is useful for depuffing under-eye bags and draining away water retention. Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune, 5 Apr. 2022 The chairman had to apologize and banish both of his daughters from management positions at the company. New York Times, 26 May 2022 See More Word History
Middle English banysshen "to condemn by proclamation to leave a country, exile, outlaw, expel, drive away," borrowed from Anglo-French baniss-, stem of banir "to proclaim, (of a king or noble) summon by a call to arms, condemn by proclamation to leave a country, exclude" (also continental Old French), going back to a Gallo-Romance adaptation of Old Low Franconian *bannjan, verbal derivative of *banna- "summon to arms by a lord" — more at ban entry 2
Note: Compare Medieval Latin bannīre, bandīre "to summon by public authority and compel performance of something" (this sense is already in the seventh-century Lex Ripuaria, the laws of the Ripuarian Franks), "to require by public authority, place under a prohibition, excommunicate." Compare also bandit.
14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
Kids Definition
banish
verb
banish
verb
Synonyms & Similar Words
- relegate
- exile
- deport
- evict
- eliminate
- transport
- expel
- displace
- exclude
- dismiss
- expatriate
- eject
- run out
- cast out
- oust
- spurn
- kick out
- excommunicate
- ostracize
- reject
- expulse
- dispossess
- repudiate
- throw out
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- receive
- accept
- admit
- naturalize
- repatriate
- entertain
- take in
- harbor
- shelter
- house
Synonyms & Similar Words
- dismiss
- out
- eject
- chase
- expel
- evict
- remove
- oust
- cast out
- kick out
- sack
- extrude
- run off
- rout
- throw out
- turn out
- bounce
- fire
- ostracize
- exile
- drum (out)
- send packing
- dispossess
- turf (out)
- give one the gate
- displace
- deport
- shut out
- read out
- terminate
- deforce
- boot (out)
- can
- expatriate
- retire
- discharge
- release
- ax
- muster out
- defenestrate
- pink-slip
- axe
- cashier
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- accept
- take
- receive
- admit
- welcome
- take in
- entertain
- shelter
- house
- harbor
- lodge
Synonym Chooser
Some common synonyms of banish are deport, exile, and transport. While all these words mean "to remove by authority from a state or country," banish implies compulsory removal from a country not necessarily one's own.
The synonyms deport and banish are sometimes interchangeable, but deport implies sending out of the country an alien who has illegally entered or whose presence is judged inimical to the public welfare.
Although the words exile and banish have much in common, exile may imply compulsory removal or an enforced or voluntary absence from one's own country.
In some situations, the words transport and banish are roughly equivalent. However, transport implies sending a convicted criminal to an overseas penal colony.