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 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 Most of us reach for breezy linen pants and flowy maxi dresses during summer, leaving our denim banished to the back of the closet. — Shea Simmons, PEOPLE, 26 July 2026 Calypso had been banished to live on the island of Ogygia after the Olympians defeated the Titans long ago. — Tanya Fedak, Variety, 18 July 2026 Gu-cheon is joined in his mission by Saeng-gang (Crash Course in Romance’s Roh Yoon-seo), the daughter of King Ju-sang who was banished from the palace as a young girl for her ability to hear spirits. — Kayti Burt, Time, 17 July 2026 Catlett was banished from the United States for what her art had to say. — Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026

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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
After British forces recaptured Delhi, much of the city was destroyed and the last Mughal emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar was exiled.

— Aishwarya Lakshmi, The Conversation, 18 Aug. 2026

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Fedorov, a popular minister credited with modernizing Ukraine’s armed forces and accelerating the military’s embrace of technology and drone warfare, was dismissed last month after reportedly falling out with the country’s top military commander.

— ABC News, ABC News, 23 Aug. 2026
Gonzalez Rogers initially dismissed the case, though the Supreme Court later took it up and ruled that consumers could sue the company.

— Jeffrey Kopp, CNBC, 22 Aug. 2026

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Pirates reliever Camilo Doval pitched one inning of scoreless relief in the sixth before being ejected.

— CBS News, CBS News, 23 Aug. 2026
Cal Raleigh delivered the big blow with a game-tying three-run home run in the second inning, followed by Brendan Donovan’s go-ahead RBI single three batters later, aided by a controversial balk call that led to manager Craig Counsell being ejected.

— Meghan Montemurro, Chicago Tribune, 22 Aug. 2026

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Sharma-Crawford did not say if they had already been deported.

— Taylor O'Connor, Kansas City Star, 26 Aug. 2026
In July 2025, Haiti’s justice minister, Patrick Pélissier, announced that the government had adopted a new protocol governing the judicial processing of Haitian nationals deported or extradited to the country.

— Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 25 Aug. 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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Duly, he is expelled from the place, and is picked up resignedly by his grandson, Kevin (Hunter Parrish).

— Jessica Kiang, Variety, 19 Aug. 2026
There have also been calls for him to be censured or even expelled by other members of Congress, especially in the wake of several high-profile accusations of misconduct in the House.

— Caroline Linton, CBS News, 18 Aug. 2026

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