Synonyms for banish

verb

1. To condemn to exile

   exile, expatriate, deport, transport, ostracize, excommunicate, proscribe, drive out, cast out, outlaw, extradite, sequester, isolate, relegate, expel, oust, dismiss, send to Coventry*, put a price on*.

   Antonyms receive*, welcome, accept.

2. To remove completely

   expel, evict, discharge; see dismiss 1, 2.

banish implies removal from a country (not necessarily one's own) as a formal punishment; exile implies compulsion to leave one's own country, either because of a formal decree or through force of circumstance; expatriate suggests more strongly voluntary exile and often implies the acquiring of citizenship in another country; to deport is to send (an alien) out of the country, because the alien either entered unlawfully or is regarded as undesirable; to transport, in this connection, is to banish (a convict) to a penal colony; ostracize, which historically referred to temporary banishment of a citizen in ancient Greece by popular vote, today implies forced exclusion from society or a certain group by general consent ostracized for scandalous behavior