Entry Word: banish

Function: verb

Meaning: 1 to force to leave a country <in the old days, criminals were sometimes banished>

Synonyms deport, displace, exile, expatriate, transport

Related Words dismiss, eject, eliminate, evict, exclude, expel, oust, throw out; excommunicate, ostracize, reject, repudiate, spurn; dispossess

Near Antonyms naturalize, repatriate; accept, admit, receive, take in; entertain, harbor, house, shelter

2 to drive or force out <permanently banished the troublemakers from the youth recreational center> — see eject 1