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# banish

«banish» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **To send someone away from a country or place as a…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (banish, banishes, banished, banishing)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To send someone away from a country or place as a punishment and forbid them to come back. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/banish/#m1)

2) To get rid of something completely, such as a feeling or a thought. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/banish/#m2)

3) To order someone to leave a place, often as a joke. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/banish/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In history and fairy tales kings banish traitors, and wizards banish evil spirits. In everyday life we «banish» boredom, worries or germs. Phrases: banish someone from, banish the thought, banished to his room.

### examples

- The king banished the knight from the kingdom. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/banish/#x1)
- Napoleon was banished to the island of Elba. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/banish/#x2)
- A warm drink can banish the winter chills. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/banish/#x3)
- Mum banished the dog to the garden for stealing the sausages. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/banish/#x4)
- She tried to banish her fears before the test. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/banish/#x5)
- In the story the witch was banished forever. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/banish/#x6)
- "Banish that thought!" said the teacher with a smile. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/banish/#x7)
- The real Nightingale was banished from the kingdom. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/banish/#x8)

### note

Regular verb: banished. The noun is «banishment». Similar: exile (formal, for countries), expel (from school or a group). «Banish» is stronger than just «send away»: it means you are not allowed back.

### In the corpora

- [Not 'banished to a cave'."](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/189-fighting-fair-no-straw-men-no-moving-goalposts-no-either-or/5/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «banish» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/banish/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.