banish

Other forms of banish

past tense

banished·

present participle

banishing·

third person

banishes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about banish

What does banish mean?

banish means "expel from a community or group". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in banish?

banish has 2 syllables: ban-ish. The stress falls on "ban". In IPA it is /ˈbænɪʃ/.

What is another word for banish?

Close synonyms include ban, ostracize, ostracise, shun, cast out. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is banish a common word?

banish is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.