(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.
Shun
Definition:
(v. t.) To avoid; to keep clear of; to get out of the way of; to escape from; to eschew; as, to shun rocks, shoals, vice.
Example Sentences:
(1) Although there are some circumstances in which it is sensible to privatise, there are many good reasons why wholesale privatisation should be shunned .
(2) They shun cost-benefit analysis but soak up aid money, saying Haiti's state is incompetent and corrupt.
(3) "I ask all Americans with a conscience to shun anything and everything to do with the murderous state of Georgia."
(4) Four months after she was artificially inseminated after shunning the attentions of her prospective mate, Yang Guang, Tian Tian appears to have lost her appetite and is showing signs of moodiness and "nesting" behaviour.
(5) Some male relatives shunned him, believing it shameful or that he might have been a willing participant.
(6) Jin said China would probably support economic measures but would shun security-related action such as signing up to the Proliferation Security Initiative.
(7) A study released in August by the nonpartisan Commonwealth Fund came to the rather interesting conclusion that if the so-called invincibles shun the new law, it will be because the plans cost more than they think they can afford and not because they feel that they are above needing healthcare coverage.
(8) Famously ascetic, teetotal and vegetarian, he meditates, practises yoga and shuns the trappings of office.
(9) Scotland remains the only country not to teach its own children its history, and the built heritage has been neglected, bulldozed or shunned by politicians fearing anything that might be construed as “too nationalistic”.
(10) They include: the impending introduction of free school meals for all infant pupils in England; the addition of cooking skills to the school curriculum; and last year's voluntary agreement on a clearer food-labelling scheme , although a number of major food producers have shunned it.
(11) He’ll face competition from Manchester City though with Pep Guardiola shunning a wealth of Barcelona and Bayern Munich stars and identifying the England man as his top transfer target during a meeting with City’s top brass in, er, Amsterdam.
(12) But it is also to do with a work culture that shuns initiative and rewards indolence.
(13) He shuns parliament, he rarely gives interviews, even to friendly media, and he runs away from reporters.
(14) Once raped, they are stigmatised or shunned by their own families and villages.
(15) Some progressives are still shunning the event, with reports both of white women feeling excluded by talk of race relations, and minority women citing privileged whites acknowledging too little, too late their struggle against chronic class and race discrimination.
(16) Kicking a tuft of grass and pretending not to notice they had shunned him.
(17) These can be done by refusing to pay tax, shunning all government functions as it will be an illegal government, and any meetings called by any minister and president, and – where possible – they must engage in simultaneous public demonstrations to express their anger and frustration."
(18) Choosing to help their neighbours to their own detriment over time is pretty refreshing to see.” For all that, some residents in low-income communities feel shunned by more affluent towns close by.
(19) It was widely assumed the Germany international would move on in January after being shunned by Mourinho at the start of the season but, as the manager now accepts, the player is the one in control.
(20) As we know, millions of voters shunned the heavy handed warnings from Downing Street and its remain campaign about the risk to 3m EU-linked jobs, tax rises and savage spending cuts.