Banish synonyms and antonyms
băn'ĭsh
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To send into exile; banish:
To expel an illegal alien, or someone whose immigration status has expired or been revoked, to a foreign country.
To deprive of membership or rights in an organization; force to leave:
To transport is defined as to take someone to another place in their mind with a strong emotion.
To ostracize is to deliberately exclude or leave someone out.
To deprive of the right of church membership by ecclesiastical authority.
To deprive of legal force.
Extradite is defined as to send a person back to the country where he or she committed a crime.
(Electricity) To set apart (a component, circuit, or system) from a source of electricity.
To force or drive out; expel, dispossess, eject, etc.
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The act of being relegated
To dispel is defined as to drive away or make disappear.
keep (antonym)
To remain in a state or condition; stay:
To put out of one's mind
To shun is to ignore, avoid or reject someone or something.
(Archaic) To curse; condemn
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To assign to a class, sphere, realm, etc.; classify as belonging to a certain order of things
To put out (a tenant, for example) from a property by legal process; expel.
send-to-coventry
(Idiomatic) To ostracize, or systematically ignore someone.
put a price on
To condemn to exile
Discharge is defined as to release, unload or dismiss.
welcome (antonym)
To greet, receive, or entertain (another or others) cordially or hospitably.
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The state of being banished, exile.
Expulsion is defined as forcing someone to leave or forcing something out of the body.
The surrender of an individual by one nation or state to another nation or state where that individual is sought for trial or punishment for the commission of a crime.
To yield (oneself) completely, as to a feeling, desire, etc.
To deprive of the possession of something, esp. land, a house, etc.; oust
(Intransitive) To come out of a machine.
To prevent from entering; keep out; bar:
accept (related)
(Intransitive) To receive something willingly.
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To vote against, especially in an exclusive organization.
blot out (related)
set-free (related)
escape (related)
exorcise (related)
taken away (related)
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expunge (related)
receive (antonym)
(Sports) To receive a pass or a kicked ball, for example.
In Athens and other cities of ancient Greece, the temporary banishment by popular vote of a citizen considered dangerous to the state.
To displace is defined as to force something to move, to move from a usual place, or to replace.
Synonym Study
- 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
- To transport , in this connection, is to banish (a convict) to a penal colony
- To deport is to send (an alien) out of the country, because the alien either entered unlawfully or is regarded as undesirable
- Expatriate suggests more strongly voluntary exile and often implies the acquiring of citizenship in another country
- Exile implies compulsion to leave one's own country, either because of a formal decree or through force of circumstance
- Banish implies removal from a country (not necessarily one's own) as a formal punishment
Find another word for banish. In this page you can discover 53 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for banish, like: exile, deport, expel, transport, ostracize, expatriate, proscribe, excommunicate, cast out, outlaw and extradite.
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