Synonyms for banish
Definitions
- v. 1
To send (someone) away and forbid them from returning.
He was banished from the kingdom for his crimes.
- v. 2
To expel, especially from the mind.
to banish fear; to banish a qualm
Related words
- Word family
- banishment
Forms
- Past participle
- banished
e.g. banished → expelled, ousted, ostracized, banned…
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Banish, primarily to put under ban, to compel by authority to leave a place or country, perhaps with restriction to some other place or country. Banish is a word of wide import; one may banish disturbing thoughts; care may banish sleep.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- expel The elders decided to expel him from the village.
- shun Please don’t shun me because I have this gift.
- oust They wanted to oust the communist government of Fidel Castro.
- exile It has been a long time since he went into exile.
- exclude Fill the bottle to the top so as to exclude all air.
By length
- 3 letters
- bar1, ban1
- 4 letters
- shun1, oust1
- 5 letters
- exile2, expel2, evict2, eject2
- 6 letters
- deport2
- 7 letters
- dismiss2, exclude2
- 8 letters
- displace2, relegate3
- 9 letters
- transport2, discharge2, extradite3, blackball2, ostracize3, proscribe2, ostracise, forbanish
- 10 letters
- expatriate4
- 13 letters
- excommunicate5
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (exile2 = 2 syllables).