(v. t.) To condemn to exile, or compel to leave one's country, by authority of the ruling power.
(v. t.) To drive out, as from a home or familiar place; -- used with from and out of.
(v. t.) To drive away; to compel to depart; to dispel.
Example Sentences:
(1) I could just banish the app from my phone forever, but deleting a piece of smart tech that makes my life easier doesn’t feel very satisfying.
(2) We should be grateful the School Food Trust has established this now, before we end up falling down a slippery slope back towards the dreaded Turkey Twizzler that Jamie Oliver campaigned to banish," he added.
(3) For a time, his father was imprisoned and the family banished from Prague.
(4) We are totally committed to banishing racism from football and this judgment appears to fly in the face of that aim.
(5) Downing Street, meanwhile, eyes George Osborne warily as a dangerous grey cardinal, banished from court but maintaining his old network of allies and spies.
(6) Updated at 8.57am BST 8.49am BST Greece's coach Fernando Santos has said he was the victim of a double-standard when he was was banished to the stands last night.
(7) Stoke's Glenn Whelan was sent off for a very silly second yellow card, Hughes found himself banished from the bench for protesting – lobbing his managerial anorak over the dugout roof in disgust en route – and Marc Wilson was also dismissed after conceding a penalty.
(8) Their high-profile campaigns – to have women on banknotes , challenge online misogyny and banish Page 3 , for example – though necessary and praiseworthy, do not reflect the most pressing needs of the majority of women, black and minority-ethnic women included.
(9) We left with a wind-up frog that seemed entrancingly lifelike in the shop floor demo, but at home just trundled dully up and down the bathtub until it caught black mould and was banished to the airing cupboard.
(10) They are engaged in a collective act of over-compensation, frantically mouthing the prayers of the new religion now that the old one has been banished as heresy.
(11) Two sponsors have suspended ties with the Los Angeles Clippers, amid mounting pressure on the team and basketball authorities to banish owner Donald Sterling from the sport over alleged racist comments .
(12) Outgoing president Hamid Karzai who fought hard to banish any foreign influence on the vote, called the deal a "bitter pill" swallowed for the sake of his country.
(13) You are our leader.” Others wanted the Foreign Office to pass on parcels to Mandela’s then wife, Winnie, at the time internally banished and under house arrest.
(14) Many TV writers have also added their names, including Andrew Davies – who wrote the Colin Firth adaptation of Pride and Prejudice for the BBC – and Jimmy McGovern, whose latest series Banished aired recently on BBC2.
(15) When Rebecca Hosking banished plastic bags from the small town of Modbury in Devon she received more than 800 emails in one day.
(16) Severe restriction of the stakes on FOBTs or, better still, banishing roulette back to the casinos altogether would focus the minds of both CEOs and shareholders on getting their slice of the action from of the best betting medium ever devised.
(17) Just as going abroad to fight with the death cult is the modern form of treason, perhaps to deal with it [we] need the modern form of banishment.
(18) Determined to banish fears that a future Tory government would not look after the health service, he will declare in the closing passage of his speech: "Conservatives – the party of the NHS."
(19) Heiner pointed to Google's continued reluctance to build a dedicated YouTube app for Microsoft's Windows Phone mobile platform — something which it has done for Apple's iPhone after Apple banished YouTube as its default video player.
(20) Returning to ANZ Stadium for the first time since last year’s preliminary final obliteration, the Kangaroos banished their demons with an 11.11 (77) to 7.9 (51) victory in a physical match full of momentum swings.
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Definition:
(prep.) Out of the neighborhood of; lessening or losing proximity to; leaving behind; by reason of; out of; by aid of; -- used whenever departure, setting out, commencement of action, being, state, occurrence, etc., or procedure, emanation, absence, separation, etc., are to be expressed. It is construed with, and indicates, the point of space or time at which the action, state, etc., are regarded as setting out or beginning; also, less frequently, the source, the cause, the occasion, out of which anything proceeds; -- the aritithesis and correlative of to; as, it, is one hundred miles from Boston to Springfield; he took his sword from his side; light proceeds from the sun; separate the coarse wool from the fine; men have all sprung from Adam, and often go from good to bad, and from bad to worse; the merit of an action depends on the principle from which it proceeds; men judge of facts from personal knowledge, or from testimony.