Word Meanings - BANISH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To condemn to exile, or compel to leave one's country, by authority of the ruling power. "We banish you our territories." Shak. 2. To drive out, as from a home or familiar place; -- used with from and out of. How the ancient Celtic tongue came

Additional info about word: BANISH

1. To condemn to exile, or compel to leave one's country, by authority of the ruling power. "We banish you our territories." Shak. 2. To drive out, as from a home or familiar place; -- used with from and out of. How the ancient Celtic tongue came to be banished from the Low Countries in Scotland. Blair. 3. To drive away; to compel to depart; to dispel. "Banish all offense." Shak. Syn. -- To Banish, Exile, Expel. The idea of a coercive removal from a place is common to these terms. A man is banished when he is forced by the government of a country to leave its borders. A man is exiled when he is driven into banishment from his native country and home. Thus to exile is to banish, but to banish is not always to exile. To expel is to eject or banish, summarily or authoritatively, and usually under circumstances of disgrace; as, to expel from a college; expelled from decent society.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of BANISH)

• Dismiss
• Banish
• discard
• abandon
• cashier
• send off
• divest
• discharge
• Excommunicate
• Exclude
• banish
• bar
• eject
• blackball
• Exile Banish
• relegate
• Relegate
• Remove
• transfer
• transport
• exile
• deport
• despatch

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of BANISH)

• Welcome
• reinstate
• domesticate
• domiciliate

Related words: (words related to BANISH)

• DISMISSIVE
  Giving dismission.
• DIVESTITURE
  The act of stripping, or depriving; the state of being divested; the deprivation, or surrender, of possession of property, rights, etc.
• EJECTOR
  A jet jump for lifting water or withdrawing air from a space. Ejector condenser , a condenser in which the vacuum is maintained by a jet pump. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, ejects or dispossesses.
• DIVESTMENT
  The act of divesting.
• EXILE
  who quits, or is banished from, his native soil; ex out + solum ground, land, soil, or perh. fr.the root of salire to leap, spring; 1. Forced separation from one's native country; expulsion from one's home by the civil authority; banishment;
• DISMISSAL
  Dismission; discharge. Officeholders were commanded faithfully to enforce it, upon pain of immediate dismissal. Motley.
• TRANSPORTING
  That transports; fig., ravishing. Your transporting chords ring out. Keble.
• TRANSPORTAL
  Transportation; the act of removing from one locality to another. "The transportal of seeds in the wool or fur of quadrupeds." Darwin.
• EJECTMENT
  A species of mixed action, which lies for the recovery of possession of real property, and damages and costs for the wrongful withholding of it. Wharton. (more info) 1. A casting out; a dispossession; an expulsion; ejection; as, the ejectment of
• TRANSPORTABILITY
  The quality or state of being transportable.
• DOMESTICATE
  1. To make domestic; to habituate to home life; as, to domesticate one's self. 2. To cause to be, as it were, of one's family or country; as, to domesticate a foreign custom or word. 3. To tame or reclaim from a wild state; as, to domesticate wild
• DISMISS
  1. To send away; to give leave of departure; to cause or permit to go; to put away. He dismissed the assembly. Acts xix. 41. Dismiss their cares when they dismiss their flock. Cowper. Though he soon dismissed himself from state affairs. Dryden.
• DOMICILIATE
  1. To establish in a permanent residence; to domicile. 2. To domesticate. Pownall.
• TRANSPORTED
  Conveyed from one place to another; figuratively, carried away with passion or pleasure; entranced. -- Trans*port"ed*ly, adv. -- Trans*port"ed*ness, n.
• DEPORTURE
  Deportment. Stately port and majestical deporture. Speed.
• DEPORTATION
  The act of deporting or exiling, or the state of being deported; banishment; transportation. In their deportations, they had often the favor of their conquerors. Atterbury.
• TRANSPORT
  1. To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey; as, to transport goods; to transport troops. Hakluyt. 2. To carry, or cause to be carried, into banishment, as a criminal; to banish. 3. To carry away with vehement emotion, as
• TRANSPORTABLE
  1. Capable of being transported. 2. Incurring, or subject to, the punishment of transportation; as, a transportable offense.
• TRANSFEREE
  The person to whom a transfer in made.
• TRANSPORTER
  One who transports.
• DEJECTION
  1. A casting down; depression. Hallywell. 2. The act of humbling or abasing one's self. Adoration implies submission and dejection. Bp. Pearson. 3. Lowness of spirits occasioned by grief or misfortune; mental depression; melancholy. What besides,
• DEJECTORY
  1. Having power, or tending, to cast down. 2. Promoting evacuations by stool. Ferrand.
• MISTRANSPORT
  To carry away or mislead wrongfully, as by passion. Bp. Hall.
• REJECTER
  One who rejects.
• REBANISH
  To banish again.