banish

verb

/ˈbænɪʃ/

Verb Forms

present simple I / you / we / they banish	/ˈbænɪʃ/ /ˈbænɪʃ/
he / she / it banishes	/ˈbænɪʃɪz/ /ˈbænɪʃɪz/
past simple banished	/ˈbænɪʃt/ /ˈbænɪʃt/
past participle banished	/ˈbænɪʃt/ /ˈbænɪʃt/
-ing form banishing	/ˈbænɪʃɪŋ/ /ˈbænɪʃɪŋ/

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[usually passive] banish somebody (from…) (to…) to order somebody to leave a place, especially a country, as a punishment放逐；流放；把（某人）驱逐出境 synonym exile
- He was banished to Australia, where he died five years later.他被流放到澳大利亚，五年后在那里去世。
- The children were banished from the dining room.孩子们被赶出餐室。
- He pleaded with the Queen not to banish him.他恳求女王不要驱逐他。
Topics Crime and punishmentc2
banish somebody/something (from something) to make somebody/something go away; to get rid of somebody/something赶走；驱除
- The sight of food banished all other thoughts from my mind.看到吃的，我别的什么都忘记了。
- He was determined to banish all feelings of guilt.他下定决心要排除内心所有的负罪感。
- She tried to banish these thoughts from her mind.她试图把这些想法从脑海中驱逐出去。

Word Originlate Middle English: from Old French baniss-, lengthened stem of banir; ultimately of Germanic origin and related to ban.