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    Maybe he had a girlfriend who really believed he would come back …. But then I think of Rue's still body and I'm able to banish the boy from my mind.  (source)
    banish = eliminate (get rid of)
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    An' bangin' on about some banshee he banished.  (source)
    banished = expelled or gotten rid of
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    As soon as he signed on, however, all thoughts of geometry were banished.  (source)
    banished = expelled or gotten rid of (from his mind)
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    To be banished from this place seemed really unfair.  (source)
    banished = expelled (kicked out)
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    When that control was violated—or perceived to have been violated—Luma's reflex, it seemed, was to banish the violator.  (source)
    banish = expel or get rid of
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    You do know that banishment is much harder than any jail cell, don't you?  (source)
    banishment = being forced to leave a community and not return
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    In that feud he rejoic'd not, but afar him he banish'd, The Maker, from mankind for the crime he had wrought.†  (source)
    banish'd = expelled or gotten rid of
    unconventional spelling: This is more commonly spelled banished.
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    I wondered if Dad had agreed to it because of his guilt for banishing Mr. Bykovski to the mine.  (source)
    banishing = expelling or getting rid of
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    It clears the head, banishes depression, and is a good preventive against hæmorrhoids.†  (source)
    banishes = expels or gets rid of
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    And when Sir Gawaine wist that, he made him ready to go with him; and said, Whoso banisheth my cousin-germain shall banish me.†  (source)
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-eth" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She banisheth" in older English, today we say "She banishes."
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    Only seen three Banishments, Tommy.†  (source)
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    *drown "Victorious tree, protection of the true, That only worthy were for to bear The King of Heaven, with his woundes new, The white Lamb, that hurt was with a spear; Flemer* of fiendes out of him and her *banisher, driver out On which thy limbes faithfully extend,<10> Me keep, and give me might my life to mend."†  (source)
    banisher = someone who expels or gets rid of
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    If I had to, I supposed I could purposefully put myself in danger to keep him close… I banished that thought before his quick eyes read it on my face.  (source)
    banished = eliminated (got rid of)
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