Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - banish

(banishes, banishing, banished) 1. If someone or something is banished from a place or area of activity, they are sent away from it and prevented from entering it. I was banished to the small bedroom upstairs... They tried to banish him from politics. = expel VERB: be V-ed from/to n, V n from/to n 2. If you banish something unpleasant, you get rid of it. ...a public investment programme intended to banish the recession. VERB: V n 3. If you banish the thought of something, you stop thinking about it. He has now banished all thoughts of retirement... The past few days had been banished from his mind. VERB: V n, be V-ed from/to n