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Driven vs Banish - What's the difference?

driven | banish |

As verbs the difference between driven and banish

is that driven is while banish is (label) to send someone away and forbid that person from returning .

As an adjective driven

is obsessed; passionately motivated to achieve goals.

driven

English

Verb

(head)
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Obsessed; passionately motivated to achieve goals.
  • (of snow) Formed into snowdrifts by wind.
  • banish

    English

    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.
  • #
  • #: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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  • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=

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