Definition of Banish

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Banish

To condemn to exile, or compel to leave one's country, by authority of the ruling power.

To drive out, as from a home or familiar place; -- used with from and out of.

To drive away; to compel to depart; to dispel.

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Banish Quotations

I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.
Mohandas Gandhi

We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.
David Sarnoff

It is because I believe that it is in the power of such nations to lead the world back into the paths of peace that I propose to devote myself to explaining what, in my opinion, can and should be done to banish the fear of war that hangs so heavily over the world.
Arthur Henderson

A superfluity of wealth, and a train of domestic slaves, naturally banish a sense of general liberty, and nourish the seeds of that kind of independence that usually terminates in aristocracy.
Mercy O. Warren

It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more.
Agnes Repplier

Banish Translations

banish in German is verbannen, verbannen, vertreiben
banish in Latin is expello (expuli expulsum ), pello pepulli pulsum
banish in Norwegian is forvise
banish in Spanish is desterrar


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