banish
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to banish (third-person singular simple present banishes, present participle banishing, simple past and past participle banished)
- To send someone away and forbid that person from returning.
- With simple direct object.
- If you don't stop talking blasphemes, I will banish you.
- With from.
- He was banished from the kingdom.
- (dated) With out of.
- 1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte d'Arthur, Modern Library 1999, p. 640:
- For I am banished out of the country of Logris for ever, that is for to say the country of England.
- 1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte d'Arthur, Modern Library 1999, p. 640:
- (archaic) With two simple objects (person and place).
- 1796, Matthew Lewis, The Monk, Folio Society 1985, p. 190:
- 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.
- 1796, Matthew Lewis, The Monk, Folio Society 1985, p. 190:
- With simple direct object.
- To expel, esp. from the mind.
- banish fear, qualm.
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to send someone away and forbid that person from returning
to expel, especially from the mind
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