banish
/ˈbænɪʃ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.07 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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 […]."
- "Then yours she will never be! You are banished her presence; her mother has opened her eyes to your designs, and she is now upon her guard against them."
- "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."