Word of the Day:
banish
What It Means
To send (someone) away and forbid them from returning.
To expel, especially from the mind.
He was banished from the kingdom for his crimes.
Banish in Context
“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.”
Did You Know?
From Middle English banishen, from Old French baniss-, extended stem of banir (“to proclaim, ban, banish”), of Germanic origin and Old English bannan, from Proto-Germanic *bannaną (“curse, forbid”). Compare French bannir. Doublet of ban.
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