banish

English

Etymology

From Old French banir (“to proclaim, ban, banish”). Compare to French bannir.

Pronunciation

• enPR: băn'ĭsh, IPA: /ˈbænɪʃ/, SAMPA: /"b{nIS/

Verb

banish (third-person singular simple present banishes, present participle banishing, simple past and past participle banished)

1. To send someone away and forbid that person from returning.
   1. (with simple direct object)

      If you don't stop talking blasphemes, I will banish you.

   2. (with from)

      He was banished from the kingdom.

      • 2011 December 15, Felicity Cloake, “How to cook the perfect nut roast”, Guardian:

        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.

   3. (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.

   4. (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.

2. To expel, especially from the mind.

   banish fear, qualm.

Related terms

• banishment

Translations

to send someone away and forbid that person from returning

Chinese: Mandarin: 逐出 (zh) (zhúchū), 驅逐 (zh), 驱逐 (zh) (qūzhú) Finnish: ajaa tiehensä (fi), ajaa pois (fi); karkottaa (fi) French: bannir (fr) Hungarian: száműz (hu)

Italian: bandire (it), esiliare (it) Latin: ablēgō (la) Romanian: alunga (ro) Russian: изгонять (ru) (izgonját') impf., изгнать (ru) (izgnát') pf. Spanish: desterrar (es)

to expel, especially from the mind

Finnish: karkottaa (fi)

Hungarian: elűz (hu), elhesseget (hu)

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Bulgarian: прогонвам, осъждам на изгнание, изпращам на заточение

External links

• banish in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• banish in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• banish at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• bash in, bashin'