banish

BAN-ishverb

Meaning to send someone away as a punishment

Memory hook BAN-ish: BANNED and sent away. “You are banned from my kingdom!” the king declares, pointing at the gate, and the scheming Rex trudges off with his bag: the king banishes him.

In the legend, the king banished the traitor to a faraway island.

In context The cat was banished from the kitchen after she knocked the cake off the counter, and she now sulks in the hallway at every mealtime.

Similar exile, expel, send away, cast out

Opposite welcome, admit, recall

From Old French banir, “to proclaim, to outlaw,” related to ban.

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