MEANING
1. To force someone to leave a place or community, often as punishment or by official authority.
2. To deliberately push an unwanted thought, feeling, or presence out of attention.
Use it for
Someone is expelled, or a thought, fear, or memory is pushed out of mind.A precise verb for forced exclusion or a deliberate attempt to push fear, memory, or darkness away.
On the page
The council banished him from the valley after the hearing.
Word forms
- Base
- banish
- Past tense
- banished
- Past participle
- banished
- Present participle
- banishing
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- banish
- Present continuous
- am/is/are banishing
- Present perfect
- have/has banished
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been banishing
- Past
- banished
- Past continuous
- was/were banishing
- Past perfect
- had banished
- Past perfect continuous
- had been banishing
- Future
- will banish
- Future continuous
- will be banishing
- Future perfect
- will have banished
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been banishing
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