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ban·ish

(băn′ĭsh)
tr.v. ban·ished, ban·ish·ing, ban·ish·es
1. To force to leave a country or place by official decree; exile: The spy was found guilty of treason and banished from the country.
2. To drive away; expel: We banished all our doubts and fears.
[Middle English banishen, from Old French banir, baniss-, of Germanic origin; see bhā- in Indo-European roots.]
ban′ish·er n.
ban′ish·ment n.
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banish

(ˈbænɪʃ)
vb (tr)
1. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) to expel from a place, esp by an official decree as a punishment
2. to drive away: to banish gloom.
[C14: from Old French banir, of Germanic origin; compare Old High German ban]
ˈbanishment n
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ban•ish

(ˈbæn ɪʃ)

v.t.
1. to expel from or relegate to a country or place by official decree; condemn to exile.
2. to send or drive away: to banish sorrow.
[1275–1325; Middle English < Anglo-French < Old French banir < Frankish]
ban′ish•er, n.
ban′ish•ment, n.
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banish


Past participle: banished
Gerund: banishing

Imperative
banish
banish
Present
I banish
you banish
he/she/it banishes
we banish
you banish
they banish
Preterite
I banished
you banished
he/she/it banished
we banished
you banished
they banished
Present Continuous
I am banishing
you are banishing
he/she/it is banishing
we are banishing
you are banishing
they are banishing
Present Perfect
I have banished
you have banished
he/she/it has banished
we have banished
you have banished
they have banished
Past Continuous
I was banishing
you were banishing
he/she/it was banishing
we were banishing
you were banishing
they were banishing
Past Perfect
I had banished
you had banished
he/she/it had banished
we had banished
you had banished
they had banished
Future
I will banish
you will banish
he/she/it will banish
we will banish
you will banish
they will banish
Future Perfect
I will have banished
you will have banished
he/she/it will have banished
we will have banished
you will have banished
they will have banished
Future Continuous
I will be banishing
you will be banishing
he/she/it will be banishing
we will be banishing
you will be banishing
they will be banishing
Present Perfect Continuous
I have been banishing
you have been banishing
he/she/it has been banishing
we have been banishing
you have been banishing
they have been banishing
Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been banishing
you will have been banishing
he/she/it will have been banishing
we will have been banishing
you will have been banishing
they will have been banishing
Past Perfect Continuous
I had been banishing
you had been banishing
he/she/it had been banishing
we had been banishing
you had been banishing
they had been banishing
Conditional
I would banish
you would banish
he/she/it would banish
we would banish
you would banish
they would banish
Past Conditional
I would have banished
you would have banished
he/she/it would have banished
we would have banished
you would have banished
they would have banished
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Verb 1. [画像:banish - expel from a community or group]banish - expel from a community or group
expel, kick out, throw out - force to leave or move out; "He was expelled from his native country"
2. [画像:banish - ban from a place of residence, as for punishment]banish - ban from a place of residence, as for punishment
expel, kick out, throw out - force to leave or move out; "He was expelled from his native country"
rusticate - send to the country; "He was rusticated for his bad behavior"
3. [画像:banish - expel, as if by official decree]banish - expel, as if by official decree; "he was banished from his own country"
expel, kick out, throw out - force to leave or move out; "He was expelled from his native country"
spike - stand in the way of
4. banish - drive away; "banish bad thoughts"; "banish gloom"
chase away, dispel, drive away, drive off, drive out, run off, turn back - force to go away; used both with concrete and metaphoric meanings; "Drive away potential burglars"; "drive away bad thoughts"; "dispel doubts"; "The supermarket had to turn back many disappointed customers"
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banish

verb
1. exclude, bar, ban, dismiss, expel, throw out, oust, drive away, eject, evict, shut out, ostracize I was banished from the small bedroom upstairs.
2. expel, transport, exile, outlaw, deport, drive away, expatriate, excommunicate He was banished from England.
expel receive, accept, admit, welcome, invite, embrace, hail, offer hospitality to
3. get rid of, remove, eliminate, eradicate, shake off, dislodge, see the back of a public investment programme intended to banish the recession
4. dismiss, drop, ban, reject, shelve, discard, set aside, disregard, dispel, cast out, lay aside, put out of your mind He has now banished all thoughts of retirement.
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banish

verb
1. To force to leave a country or place by official decree:
2. To rid one's mind of:
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Translations
يَنْفي، يُقْصي، يَطْرُد
vyhostit
fordriveforvise
dæma í útlegî
ištrėmimasištremtiišvyti
izraidīt, izsūtīt
vyhostiť
izgnati
sürgün etmeksürmek

banish

[ˈbænɪʃ] VT [+ person] → expulsar, desterrar (fig) [+ thought, fear] → desterrar, apartar (from de) to banish a topic from one's conversation → desterrar un tema de la conversación
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banish

[ˈbænɪʃ] vt
(= expel) [+ person] → bannir
to banish sb from → bannir qn de
(= get rid of) [+ memory, thought] → bannir ; [+ poverty] → bannir
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

banish

vt person → verbannen ; cares, fear → vertreiben
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banish

[ˈbænɪʃ] vt to banish (from) (person) → bandire (da), esiliare (da); (thought, fear) → bandire (da)
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

banish

(ˈbӕniʃ) verb
to send away (usually from a country), especially as a punishment. He was banished (from the country) for treason. verban يَنْفي، يُقْصي، يَطْرُد осъждам на изгнание expulsar vyhostit verbannen forvise; fordrive εξορίζω desterrar pagendama تبعید کردن karkottaa bannir לְגָרֵש, לְהַגלוֹת निकाल देना izopćiti száműz mengusir, membuang dæma í útlegð bandire, esiliare 追放する 추방하다 išvyti, ištremti izraidīt, izsūtīt (trimdā); padzīt buang negeri verbannen forvise, jage på dør, fordrive wygnać شړل، تبعيدول، فرارول، موقوفول expulsar a exila, a expulza изгонять vyhostiť izgnati proterati [lands]förvisa เนรเทศ sürgün etmek, sürmek 流放 виганяти; засилати دور کرنا، جلا وطن کرنا trục xuất 流放
ˈbanishment noun
ban, verbanning نَفْي، طَرْد، إقْصاء заточение expulsão vyhoštění, vyhnanství die Verbannung forvisning; fordrivelse εξορία destierro pagendus تبعید karkotus bannissement גלות, גרוש देश-निकाला izopćenje száműz(et)és pengusiran, pembuangan útlegð; brottvísun bando, esilio 追放 추방 ištrėmimas izraidīšana; izsūtīšana (trimdā); padzīšana pembuangan negeri verbanning forvisning banicja شړل. فرارول desterro exilare; exil изгнание vyhnanstvo izgon izgnanstvo [lands]förvisning การเนรเทศ sürgün, sürgüne gönderme 流放 вигнання; заслання جلاوطن tình trạng bị trục xuất 流放
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Now are thoughts thou shalt not banish - Now are visions ne'er to vanish - From thy spirit shall they pass No more - like dew-drop from the grass:
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With its words of good and bad doth such self-enjoyment shelter itself as with sacred groves; with the names of its happiness doth it banish from itself everything contemptible.
Away from itself doth it banish everything cowardly; it saith: "Bad--THAT IS cowardly!" Contemptible seem to it the ever-solicitous, the sighing, the complaining, and whoever pick up the most trifling advantage.
But whenever a whole family or any one of another shall happen so far to excel in virtue as to exceed all other persons in the community, the n it is right that the kingly power should be in them, or if it is an individual who does so, that he should be king and lord of all; for this, as we have just mentioned, is not only correspondent to that principle of right which all founders of all states, whether aristocracies, oligarchies, or democracies, have a regard to (for in placing the supreme power they all think it right to fix it to excellence, though not the same); but it is also agreeable to what has been already said; as it would not be right to kill, or banish, or ostracise such a one for his superior merit.
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He was banished in 1634, and went first to Plymouth colony; but as the people there held the same opinions as those of Massachusetts, he was not suffered to remain among them.
When Roger Williams was banished, he appears to have given the chair to Mrs.
It was talking one night with a certain prince, one of the banished ministers of state belonging to the Czar, that the discourse of my particular case began.
In the month of May I began to make all ready to pack up; and, as I was doing this, it occurred to me that, seeing all these people were banished by the Czar to Siberia, and yet, when they came there, were left at liberty to go whither they would, why they did not then go away to any part of the world, wherever they thought fit: and I began to examine what should hinder them from making such an attempt.
"Let me remain, dear sir," he said, in conclusion--"let me remain in this blessed confinement, banished from the crimes of life, rather than purchase a show of freedom at the expense of the liberty of my reason, and at the future happiness which I now have in my view, but should then, I fear, quickly lose sight of; for I am but flesh; a man, a mere man; and have passions and affections as likely to possess and overthrow me as any man: Oh, be not my friend and tempter both together!"
Our lives, our tears, as water, Are spilled upon the ground; God giveth no man quarter, Yet God a means hath found; Though faith and hope have vanished, And even love grows dim; A means whereby His banished Be not expelled from Him!
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In the end he was banished, and finally put to death by the Emperor's order.
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Banish shaped encouragingly on his first run since October recently and can show the benefit of that by winning the Bmc Bucket Manufacturing Handicap.
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