banish
IPA: bˈænɪʃ
verb
- (heading) To send someone away and forbid that person from returning.
- To expel, especially from the mind.
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Examples of "banish" in Sentences
- The state banished the convict.
- The exile was to banish all the people.
- He was banished into the lonely island.
- They had to banish the group of people.
- Both he and the wrangler were banished.
- He was banished to the Isle of Guernsey.
- In the end, he was banished from the square.
- It banished the noisome weeds of grosser birth.
- To atone for his mistake, the king is banished.
- When the Lord recalls the banish'd, [637] h121-p0. 6
- They banish the missionaries and let the Ethiopians stay.
- When the Lord recalls the banish'd, [1415] h199-p1. 7, [1416] h199-p2. 4
- Do you believe that on some level he was able to "banish" Rakhi's ominous competitor?
- He expected the High Bishop to "banish" the creature as he always had before, though probably in a much more spectacular manner.
- The sad truth was that, for a woman, a hasty word or an embrace—even unwanted—could be enough to tarnish her name and banish her and her family from society.
- It was one thing to "banish" a "demon" no one could see-it was quite another to actually defeat such a creature in a battle anyone could see with his own eyes!
- In old Mauritania, now Marocco,384 the Moors proper are notable sodomites; Moslems, even of saintly houses, are permitted openly to keep catamites, nor do their disciples think worse of their sanctity for such licence: in one case the English wife failed to banish from the home “that horrid boy.”
- Having gained power through this coup d'etat, Antonio then proceeded to 'banish' his brother in such a way as to ensure the death of Prospero and his infant daughter, casting them adrift in an unseaworthy sea vessel with only the supply of food and water provided for them by a kindly old courtier named Gonzalo.