banish
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Is banish a Scrabble word?
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Definition
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To send (someone) away and forbid them from returning.Examples: "He was banished from the kingdom for his crimes."; "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."; "he never referreth any one unto vertue, religion, or conscience: as if they were all extinguished and banished the world […]."transitive
2. (transitive) To expel, especially from the mind.Examples: "to banish fear; to banish a qualm"; "[…]St. Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London. Close-packed, crushed by the buttressed height of the railway viaduct, rendered airless by huge walls of factories, it at once banished lively interest from a stranger's mind and left only a dull oppression of the spirit."transitive
Definition source: Wiktionary