banish

present singular third person banishes · participle present banishing · participle past banished · past banished

1. transitiveTo send (someone) away and forbid them from returning.

   He was banished from the kingdom for his crimes.

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   The parsnip, stilton and chestnut combination may taste good, but it's not terribly decorative. In fact, dull's the word, a lingering adjectival ghost of nut roasts past that I'm keen to banish from the table.

   2011 December 15, Felicity Cloake, “How to cook the perfect nut roast”, in Guardian

   he never referreth any one unto vertue, religion, or conscience: as if they were all extinguished and banished the world […].

   , II.10

   Then yours she will never be! You are banished her presence; her mother has opened her eyes to your designs, and she is now upon her guard against them.

   1796, Matthew Lewis, The Monk, Folio Society, published 1985, page 190

2. transitiveTo expel, especially from the mind.

   to banish fear; to banish a qualm

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   […]St. Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London. Close-packed, crushed by the buttressed height of the railway viaduct, rendered airless by huge walls of factories, it at once banished lively interest from a stranger's mind and left only a dull oppression of the spirit.

   1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter VII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC

   Helping her into her still-damp coat, she asked if Laura had a solicitor. Laura laughed, started off down the lane, limping a little more than usual, and then she turned back, a grin on her face, all traces of tears banished. “Does the pope shit in the woods?”

   2021, Paula Hawkins, chapter 26, in A Slow Fire Burning, [New York, N.Y.]: Random House Large Print, →ISBN, page 281