• enPR: băn'ĭsh, IPA: /ˈbænɪʃ/

banish (banishes, present participle banishing; past and past participle banished)

1. (heading) To send someone away and forbid that person from returning.
   1. (with simple direct object)

      If you don't stop talking blasphemies, I will banish you.

   2. (with from)

      He was banished from the kingdom.

   3. (dated, with out of)
   4. (archaic, with two simple objects (person and place))
      • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, John Florio, transl., The Essayes, […], printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821 ↗:

        , II.10:

        he never referreth any one unto vertue, religion, or conscience: as if they were all extinguished and banished the world […].

      • 1796, Matthew Lewis, The Monk, Folio Society, 1985, p.190:

        Then yours she will never be! You are banished her presence; her mother has opened her eyes to your designs, and she is now upon her guard against them.

2. To expel, especially from the mind.

   banish fear, qualm.

• banishment

• French: bannir
• German: verbannen, herauswerfen
• Italian: bandire, esiliare
• Portuguese: banir
• Russian: высыла́ть
• Spanish: desterrar

• German: vertreiben