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banish verb [ ˈbanɪʃ ]

• send (someone) away from a country or place as an official punishment.
• "a number of people were banished to Siberia for political crimes"
Similar: exile, expel, deport, eject, expatriate, extradite, repatriate, transport, cast out, oust, drive away, evict, throw out, exclude, shut out, ban, excommunicate, ostracize,
Opposite: admit, readmit,
Origin: late Middle English: from Old French baniss-, lengthened stem of banir ; ultimately of Germanic origin and related to ban1.


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