banished; banishing; banishes
1
: to require by authority to leave a country
a dictator who banishes anyone who opposes him
2
: to drive out or remove from a home or place of usual resort or continuance
He was banished from court.
banishing her from the sport
The reporters were banished to another room.
3
: to clear away : dispel
his discovery banishes anxiety—
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banisher
noun
Examples of banish in a Sentence
He was banished for life.
The dictator banished anyone who opposed him.
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Their preferred solution to informational complexity—that certain ideas and the people associated with them were Bad and Wrong and needed to be banished from the public sphere—wasn’t much better.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 28 May 2025
Through his tight leadership that began with the fifth season, delays became a thing of the past, unceremoniously banished to the farthest reaches of the Central Finite Curve.
—Josh Weiss, Forbes.com, 23 May 2025
Over the past thirty years, thousands of Native Americans have been unceremoniously banished from their tribes.
—Matthew Carey, Deadline, 22 May 2025
By spreading the values of unionism and free trade across the world, American workers sought to raise global living standards and forever banish the threat of low-wage competition from abroad.
— Made By History, Time, 21 Apr. 2025
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Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 28 May 2025
Through his tight leadership that began with the fifth season, delays became a thing of the past, unceremoniously banished to the farthest reaches of the Central Finite Curve.
—Josh Weiss, Forbes.com, 23 May 2025
Over the past thirty years, thousands of Native Americans have been unceremoniously banished from their tribes.
—Matthew Carey, Deadline, 22 May 2025
By spreading the values of unionism and free trade across the world, American workers sought to raise global living standards and forever banish the threat of low-wage competition from abroad.
— Made By History, Time, 21 Apr. 2025
See All Example Sentences for banish
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“Banish.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/banish. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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