banish

UK /ˈbænɪʃ/ US /ˈbænɪʃ/
verb 2

Definitions

verb

1

To send (someone) away and forbid them from returning.

He was banished from the kingdom for his crimes.

The parsnip, stilton and chestnut combination may taste good, but it's not terribly decorative. In fact, dull's the word, a lingering adjectival ghost of nut roasts past that I'm keen to banish from the table.

2

To expel, especially from the mind.

to banish fear; to banish a qualm

[…]St. Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London. Close-packed, crushed by the buttressed height of the railway viaduct, rendered airless by huge walls of factories, it at once banished lively interest from a stranger's mind and left only a dull oppression of the spirit.

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