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Definition of banish

drive away; "banish bad thoughts"; "banish gloom"
expel, as if by official decree; "he was banished from his own country"
expel from a community or group
ban from a place of residence, as for punishment

Similar Words: relegate, bar, ban, ostracize, ostracise, shun, cast out, blackball

Hyponyms: spike, rusticate

Derivational Morphology: relegation, banishment, proscription, barring, blackball, ostracism, Coventry

Anagrams: ashbin

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