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- [usually passive] banish somebody (from…) (to…)
to order somebody to leave a place, especially a country, as a punishment 放逐；流放；把（某人）驱逐出境 He was banished to Australia, where he died five years later. 他被流放到澳大利亚，五年后在那里去世。 🔊🔊 The children were banished from the dining room. 孩子们被赶出餐室。 🔊🔊 He pleaded with the Queen not to banish him. 他恳求女王不要放逐他。
- banish somebody/something (from something)
to make somebody/something go away; to get rid of somebody/something 赶走；驱除
Word Originlate Middle English: from Old French baniss-, lengthened stem of banir; ultimately of Germanic origin and related to ban.