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 After he is banished, a magical bracelet carries her across worlds and parallel space-times on a journey to reclaim her dreams and her lost love. — Emiliano De Pablos, Variety, 30 Sep. 2026 Now, after King Charles stripped her and Andrew of the titles of Duke and Duchess of York and banished them from Royal Lodge, Fergie is reportedly seeking a face-to-face meeting with Charles. — Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 21 Sep. 2026 In this charming graphic novel, the mischievous Norse god Loki gets banished to mid-Guard—AKA Earth—as punishment and must adjust to a month of life as an 11-year-old boy and document his journey in a journal. — Kavya Dhillon, Parents, 19 Sep. 2026 The Pentagon has also effectively banished most news organizations from its facilities and otherwise restricted access. — Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 18 Sep. 2026 Madeline — a Faithful through and through — was then banished due to Kriste’s questionable hearing with 13 out of 21 votes… a truly terrible way to go. — Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 18 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 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

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The celebrity kingmaker had finally been officially exiled from the royal court.

— Lindsey Weber, Vanity Fair, 28 Sep. 2026
The outlet notes that at the same referendum, male heirs of Italy’s last king (aka sons of the Savoy family) were exiled and barred from ever entering the country.

— Bailey Bujnosek, InStyle, 20 Sep. 2026

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Following the meeting, the president dismissed the idea of new AI rules and reiterated his view that the industry should police itself.

— Jeff Masonand Michael Shepard Bloomberg, Arkansas Online, 3 Oct. 2026
Like his brother, John had at first dismissed the idea of an American being elected to the papacy.

— Scott Detrow, NPR, 3 Oct. 2026

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Perdomo Torres was ejected from the van and thrown to the ground, breaking his leg, ankle and hand.

— David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 1 Oct. 2026
Smith, who was riding in the left lane, was ejected from the bike and hit the pavement, suffering severe injuries, according to police.

— Colin Mixson, New York Daily News, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of ejected

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The arrangements have drawn mounting scrutiny, most recently after migrants deported to Equatorial Guinea were held at gunpoint and beaten.

— Adrian Elimian, semafor.com, 2 Oct. 2026
At a status hearing Wednesday, Taurel pressed the judge to specify that Sarsour can only be deported to Israel or the Palestinian territories.

— Cybele Mayes-Osterman, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2026

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Know More Private-credit firms are one of the fastest-growing borrower sets for banks, which were chased out of risky lending after the 2008 crisis but have since found their way back into the trade by lending to the firms that replaced them.

— Ellen DiMauro, semafor.com, 5 Oct. 2026
My father, a Brazilian immigrant, chased after the man, and helped the police make an arrest.

— Marcus Jones, IndieWire, 2 Oct. 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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The seven Chi Phi members in question were expelled or suspended, but some of them were allowed to continue their education at the university following a monthslong Title IX investigation.

— David Zimmermann, The Washington Examiner, 2 Oct. 2026
Had they been found smoking grass in the school they would have been expelled or at least given detention, but no one knew that their club met in the trap room under the stage.

— Tom Drury, Harpers Magazine, 29 Sep. 2026

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