Verb

(head)

(banish)

Verb

(es)

(label) To send someone away and forbid that person from returning.

#(with simple direct object)

#:If you don't stop talking blasphemes, I will banish you.

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#:He was banished from the kingdom.

#*{{quote-news, year=2011, date=December 15, author=Felicity Cloake, work=Guardian

, title= How to cook the perfect nut roast , passage=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.}}

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#*, Ch.V, Modern Library, 1999, p.640:

#*:Now for Christ's love, said Sir Launcelot, keep it in counsel, and let no man know it in the world, for I am sore ashamed that I have been thus miscarried; for I am banished out of the country of Logris for ever, that is for to say the country of England.

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#*, II.10:

#*:he never referreth any one unto vertue, religion, or conscience: as if they were all extinguished and banished the world.

#*1796 , (Matthew Lewis), The Monk , Folio Society, 1985, p.190:

#*:Then yours she will never be! You are banished her presence; her mother has opened her eyes to your designs, and she is now upon her guard against them.

To expel, especially from the mind.

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*, chapter=7

, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=

Verb

(head)

(shun)

Verb

(shunn)

To avoid, especially persistently.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist), author=Lexington

, title= Keeping the mighty honest , passage=British journalists shun complete respectability, feeling a duty to be ready to savage the mighty, or rummage through their bins. Elsewhere in Europe, government contracts and subsidies ensure that press barons will only defy the mighty so far.}}

To escape (a threatening evil, an unwelcome task etc).

To screen, hide.

To shove, push.