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banish

verb

1 banish

Expel from a community or group.

synonyms: ban, blackball, cast out, ostracise, ostracize, shun.

Roget 893: be secluded, live secluded etc. adj.; keep aloof, stand, hold oneself aloof, keep in the background, stand in the background; keep snug; shut oneself up; deny oneself, seclude oneself creep into a corner, rusticate, ... show more

Roget 972: punish; chastise, chasten; castigate, correct, inflict punishment, administer correction, deal retributive justice; cowhide, lambaste [Slang].    visit upon, pay; pay out, serve out; ... show more

Dutch: verbannen

2 banish

Ban from a place of residence, as for punishment.

synonym: ban.

Dutch: verbannen

3 banish

Expel, as if by official decree:
— He was banished from his own country.

synonyms: bar, relegate.

Roget 55: be excluded from &c.; exclude, bar; leave out, shut out, bar out; reject, repudiate, blackball; lay apart, put apart, set apart, ... show more

Roget 297: give exit, give vent to; let out, give out, pour out, squeeze out, send out; dispatch, despatch; exhale, excern, excrete; embogue; secrete, ... show more

Dutch: bannen, verbannen

4 banish

Drive away.


Moby thesaurus: ban, blackball, blacklist, boycott, bump, can, cashier, cast out, cut, debar, deport, discharge, disfellowship, dismiss, displace, drive away, drive out, eject, evict, exclude ... show more.

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