banish

banish
I
(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)
v. t. exile, dismiss, expel. See ejection, punishment, exclusion.
II
(Roget's IV) v.
1. [To condemn to exile]
Syn. exile, expatriate, deport, transport, ostracize, excommunicate, proscribe, drive out, cast out, outlaw, extradite, sequester, isolate, relegate, expel, oust, dismiss, send to Coventry*, put a price on*.
Ant. receive*, welcome, accept.
2. [To remove completely]
Syn. expel, evict, discharge; see dismiss 1 , 2 .
Syn.- banish implies removal from a country (not necessarily one's own) as a formal punishment; exile implies compulsion to leave one's own country, either because of a formal decree or through force of circumstance; expatriate suggests more strongly voluntary exile and often implies the acquiring of citizenship in another country; to deport is to send (an alien) out of the country, because the alien either entered unlawfully or is regarded as undeSirable; to transport , in this connection, is to banish (a convict) to a penal colony; ostracize , which historically referred to temporary banishment of a citizen in ancient Greece by popular vote, today implies forced exclusion from society or a certain group by general consent [ostracized for scandalous behavior ]
III
(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) v.
exile, expel, eject, remove, ban, proscribe, excommunicate, deport, outlaw, dismiss, oust, relegate, drum out.
ANT.: adopt, invite, embrace
IV
(Roget's Thesaurus II) verb 1. To force to leave a country or place by official decree: deport, exile, expatriate, expel, ostracize, transport. See ACCEPT. 2. To rid one's mind of: cast out, dismiss, dispel, shut out. See KEEP.

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