Dictionary Entry
banish
banish is a 6-letter English word with 7 senses as transitive verb and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To condemn to exile, or compel to leave one's country, by authority of the ruling power. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 12 · 7 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To condemn to exile, or compel to leave one's country, by authority of the ruling power.
- 2transitive verb
To drive out, as from a home or familiar place; -- used with from and out of.
- 3transitive verb
To drive away; to compel to depart; to dispel.
- 4verb
drive away
"banish bad thoughts"
"banish gloom"
- 5verb
expel, as if by official decree
"he was banished from his own country"
- 6verb
expel from a community or group
- 7verb
ban from a place of residence, as for punishment
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