Verb

(head)

(reject)

Verb

(en verb)

To refuse to accept.

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(basketball) To block a shot, especially if it sends the ball off the court.

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=