banish
ba nish
- v expel from a community or group
- v ban from a place of residence, as for punishment
- v expel, as if by official decree
he was banished from his own country - v drive away
banish bad thoughts
banish gloom
- He swore to banish forever the kind of error made by the Red Cross from 1940 to 1944, when it distributed packages but remained silent over the crime of the death camps, where his .
- He couldn't banish the stain of sleaze that leached through our public life this year, nor could he restore civility to our discourse or turn the media's attention to rotten .
- We can banish extreme poverty in our generation--yet 8 million people die each year because they are too poor to survive.