banish
verbattested in dialogue
- //ˈbænɪʃ//
To send (someone) away and forbid them from returning.
verb
- 1
To send (someone) away and forbid them from returning.
He was banished from the kingdom for his crimes.
The parsnip, stilton and chestnut combination may taste good, but it's not terribly decorative. In fact, dull's the word, a lingering adjectival ghost of nut roasts past that I'm keen to banish from the table.
he never referreth any one unto vertue, religion, or conscience: as if they were all extinguished and banished the world […].
Then yours she will never be! You are banished her presence; her mother has opened her eyes to your designs, and she is now upon her guard against them.
- 2
To expel, especially from the mind.
to banish fear; to banish a qualm
[…]St. Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London. Close-packed, crushed by the buttressed height of the railway viaduct, rendered airless by huge walls of factories, it at once banished lively interest from a stranger's mind and left only a dull oppression of the spirit.
Etymology
From Middle English banishen, from Old French baniss-, extended stem of banir (“to proclaim, ban, banish”), of Germanic origin and Old English bannan, from Proto-Germanic *bannaną (“curse, forbid”). Compare French bannir. Doublet of ban.
Forms
- past tense
- banished
- past participle
- banished
- present participle
- banishing
- third person singular
- banishes
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