BANISHED Synonyms: 65 Similar and Opposite Words

banished

verb

past tense of banish

as in exiled

to force to leave a country in the old days, criminals were sometimes banished to distant lands

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as in dismissed

to drive or force out permanently banished the troublemakers from the youth recreational center

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Recent Examples of banished Their situation is nothing like that of Prince Andrew, for example, who was stripped of all his titles and has now been banished to Sandringham. — Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 15 Sep. 2026 Characters banished or murdered early in one version emerge victorious in another. — Greg Evans, Deadline, 10 Sep. 2026 The whole region, Mencken argued, was a Baptist-Methodist stranglehold where fun and free thought were banished. — John Hayes, The Conversation, 9 Sep. 2026 The film is a story about motherhood, survival and resistance that follows a young woman who’s been banished from her community. — Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 2 Sep. 2026 Any doubts over whether that deal would be concluded would have been banished as soon as Riad was taken off. — Matt Woosnam, New York Times, 23 Aug. 2026 Since then, the former Duke of York has been effectively banished from royal life, including the Firm’s annual Christmas gathering at Sandringham. — Emma Banks, InStyle, 21 Aug. 2026 Plus a few other wackadoodles banished from labels, serving out their sentences in our nuthouse. — Jeff Rabhan, Rolling Stone, 14 Aug. 2026 Ransoms were paid, with Carlos taking much of the $50 million himself, leading him to be banished from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. — Air Mail, 1 Aug. 2026

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Located in Jerusalem, al-Wasiti became, for years, the place to visit, empowering Palestinian artists exiled all over the world to return to a fountain of unity and belonging.

— Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 26 Aug. 2026
This thriller centers on disgraced or damaged agents of Britain’s MI6 intelligence service who have been exiled to a remote Greek island.

— Monitor reviewers, Christian Science Monitor, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of exiled

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Challenges to Essayli’s position were brought in several criminal cases, with defense lawyers arguing that charges filed under his watch are invalid and should be dismissed.

— Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2026
One of them, dismissed Sooners quarterback Chris Robison, was the MVP of the 2019 Conference USA championship, Kiffin’s second league title in three seasons.

— Matt Baker, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2026

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Designers are making the claim that the humble sweater, long relegated to serving as a convenient layer beneath tailoring and outerwear, can also be the main attraction.

— Jon Roth, Robb Report, 5 Sep. 2026
Despite the victory, they were still relegated to Spain’s second division, but the strike was nominated for the club’s goal of the year award for 2025.

— Guillermo Rai, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2026

Definition of relegated

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Separately, the administration deported an Afghan man to the Central African Republic despite a prior judicial protection order over fears his family could face Taliban retaliation.

— Adrian Elimian, semafor.com, 18 Sep. 2026
The group includes at least 113 former beneficiaries of Temporary Protected Status, who were deported mere days after being detained in the United States, according to Haitian government records.

— Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 17 Sep. 2026

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The man, identified as 22-year-old Rohit Rohit, chased Thakur down outside a Panera and shot her multiple times, the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release.

— Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2026
Operators that mastered complexity while others chased appearances.

— Nia Bowers, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2026

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Co-owner John Mara is battling cancer, and co-owner Steve Tisch is laying low after being outed in the Epstein Files.

— Pat Leonard, New York Daily News, 22 Aug. 2026
Photoplay’s feature Hollywood’s Unmarried Husbands and Wives outed several of the era’s most bankable couples—Clark Gable and Carole Lombard among them—for the crime of cohabitating without paperwork.

— Natalie Hoberman, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026

Definition of outed

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In fact, Israel built its future wagering that the Palestinians violently displaced and expelled in the Nakba would eventually move on, assimilate, forget the depravity that ripped them from their land.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2026
He was expelled from Prairie View A&M University in 1971 after protesting against the expulsion of the editor of the student newspaper.

— Andrea Flores, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2026

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