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