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banish

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of banish

1 to force to leave a country

  • in the old days, criminals were sometimes banished to distant lands
Synonyms of banish

deport, displace, exile, expatriate, relegate, transport
Words Related to banish

cast out, dismiss, eject, eliminate, evict, exclude, expel, expulse, kick out, oust, run out, throw out

excommunicate, ostracize, reject, repudiate, spurn

dispossess
Near Antonyms of banish

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
Synonyms of banish

boot (out), bounce, cast out, chase, dismiss, drum (out), eject, expel, extrude, kick out, oust, out, rout, run off, throw out, turf (out) [chiefly British], turn out
Words Related to banish

deforce, deport, displace, dispossess, evict, exile, expatriate, ostracize, read out, shut out

ax (or axe), can, cashier, defenestrate, discharge, fire, muster out, pink-slip, release, remove, retire, sack, terminate
Phrases Synonymous with banish

give one the gate [slang], send packing
Near Antonyms of banish

accept, admit, receive, take, take in

welcome

entertain, harbor, house, lodge, shelter

Synonym Discussion of banish

banish, exile, deport, transport mean to remove by authority from a state or country. banish implies compulsory removal from a country not necessarily one's own.
    • banished for seditious activities
exile may imply compulsory removal or an enforced or voluntary absence from one's own country.
    • a writer who exiled himself for political reasons
deport implies sending out of the country an alien who has illegally entered or whose presence is judged inimical to the public welfare.
    • illegal aliens will be deported
transport implies sending a convicted criminal to an overseas penal colony.
    • a convict who was transported to Australia

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