Banish
['bænɪʃ]
Definition
(verb.) drive away; 'banish bad thoughts'; 'banish gloom'.
(verb.) expel, as if by official decree; 'he was banished from his own country'.
(verb.) expel from a community or group.
(verb.) ban from a place of residence, as for punishment.
Typist: Shelby--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To condemn to exile, or compel to leave one's country, by authority of the ruling power.
(v. t.) To drive out, as from a home or familiar place; -- used with from and out of.
(v. t.) To drive away; to compel to depart; to dispel.
Typed by Lena
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Exile, expatriate, ostracize, expel from the country.[2]. Exclude, shut out, drive away, put out of mind.
Checked by Blanchard
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Expel, abandon, dispel, eject, extrude, exclude, relegate, expatriate,repudiate, disclaim
ANT:Cherish, foster, protect, consider, encourage, locate, retain, entertain,domiciliate, domesticate, harbor
Inputed by Angela
Definition
v.t. to condemn to exile: to drive away: to expel (with from out of).—n. Ban′ishment exile.
Typed by Claus
Examples
- Banish the bleak winds of sorrow from thy mind and live independent. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- She would banish all recollection of the Thornton family,--no need to think of them till they absolutely stood before her in flesh and blood. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- There was nothing to cool or banish love in these circumstances, though much to create despair. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- All his suspicions, which he had been trying to banish, returned upon him. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I dare say we shall be often together, and I should like to banish any needless restraint between us. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- The addition of 1 ounce of powdered colocynth to the above amount will effectually banish all insects and worms from the walls where the paper is pasted. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- I banish the false wretch from this moment, and I strike him out of my Cupidon (my name for my Ledger, my dear,) this very night. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- But still the disappointed father held a strong lever; and Fred felt as if he were being banished with a malediction. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I had no right to hear them, no right to answer them--they were the words that banished me, in the name of her sacred weakness, from the room. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Cedric, who had been struck mute by the sudden appearance of his banished son, now rushed forward, as if to separate him from Rowena. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Long banished Robinson Crusoe,' says the charmer, exchanging salutations, 'how did you leave the Island? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- These then, I said, must be banished; even to women who have a character to maintain they are of no use, and much less to men. Plato. The Republic.
- Such was our domestic circle, from which care and pain seemed for ever banished. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- I am banished to the Bower, to be found in it like a piece of furniture whenever wanted. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- In town she returned to preoccupations which, for the moment, had the happy effect of banishing troublesome thoughts. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- It was as though she had stepped, not out of, but into, Reynolds's canvas, banishing the phantom of his dead beauty by the beams of her living grace. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- And the mind has often a wonderful and almost superhuman power of banishing disease and weakness and calling out a hidden strength. Plato. The Republic.
Checker: Wyatt