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BANISH

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Drive away

Example:

banish gloom

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "banish" is one way to...):

chase away; dispel; drive away; drive off; drive out; run off; turn back (force to go away; used both with concrete and metaphoric meanings)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Expel, as if by official decree

Example:

he was banished from his own country

Synonyms:

banish; bar; relegate

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "banish" is one way to...):

expel; kick out; throw out (force to leave or move out)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "banish"):

spike (stand in the way of)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody PP

Derivation:

banishment (rejection by means of an act of banishing or proscribing someone)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Expel from a community or group

Synonyms:

ban; banish; blackball; cast out; ostracise; ostracize; shun

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "banish" is one way to...):

expel; kick out; throw out (force to leave or move out)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

banishment (the state of being banished or ostracized (excluded from society by general consent))

Sense 4

Meaning:

Ban from a place of residence, as for punishment

Synonyms:

ban; banish

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "banish" is one way to...):

expel; kick out; throw out (force to leave or move out)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "banish"):

rusticate (send to the country)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Credits

 Context examples: 

A day later, the fear response was banished only in human participants who underwent extinction training soon after fear reactivation.

(How Our Memory Works, NIH, US)

The morning had passed away so charmingly as to banish all her friendship and natural affection, for no thought of Isabella or James had crossed her during their walk.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

"Don't laugh! Act as if it was all right!" and, ordering Roderigo up, banished him from the kingdom with wrath and scorn.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Dear affectionate creature! You banished to Abbey-Mill Farm! You confined to the society of the illiterate and vulgar all your life!

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Her manners were attaching, and soon banished his reserve.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

The postman's knock within the neighbourhood was beginning to bring its daily terrors, and if reading could banish the idea for even half an hour, it was something gained.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Consistent with recent prevention strategies, it is important to change the perspective on the enjoyment of food with respect to the prevention of obesity, banishing the idea that we should avoid the pleasure of eating.

(Obesity and food restrictions proven to be associated with less food enjoyment, University of Granada)

The Human Connectome Project (HCP) team set out to banish this blurriness by using multiple, precisely aligned, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) modalities to measure cortical architecture, activity, connectivity, and topography in a group of 210 healthy participants.

(Connectome map more than doubles human cortex’s known regions, NIH)

My cousin Annie did say, when we talked of it, that she liked to have her friends within reach rather than to have them banished, and the old Doctor—”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Dear Victor, banish these dark passions.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)