Definition of "banish" in English

verb

1. (transitive) To send (someone) away and forbid them from returning.

   • He was banished from the kingdom for his crimes.
   • he never referreth any one unto vertue, religion, or conscience: as if they were all extinguished and banished the world […].

2. (transitive) To expel, especially from the mind.

   • to banish fear; to banish a qualm