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banish Verb 1. to send into exile 2. to drive away: it's the only way to banish weeds from the garden [Old French banir] banishment n
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banish verb 1. exclude, bar, ban, dismiss, expel, throw out, oust, drive away, eject, evict, shut out, ostracize verb 2. expel, transport, exile, outlaw, deport, drive away, expatriate, excommunicate << OPPOSITE admit |
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With its words of good and bad doth such self-enjoyment shelter itself as with sacred groves; with the names of its happiness doth it banish from itself everything contemptible. Of its unmeaning character, too, I was entirely persuaded, yet that did not banish it. Mother Atkinson, as all called their hostess, was the merriest there, and the busiest; for she kept flying up to wait on the children, to bring out some new dish, or to banish the live stock, who were of such a social turn that the colt came into the entry and demanded sugar; the cats sat about in people's laps, winking suggestively at the food; and speckled hens cleared the kitchen floor of crumbs, as they joined in the chat with a cheerful clucking. |
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