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Banish vs. Exile — What's the Difference?

Banish vs. Exile — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Banish and Exile

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Banish

Send (someone) away from a country or place as an official punishment
A number of people were banished to Siberia for political crimes

Exile

To be in exile means to be forced away from one's home (i.e. village, town, city, state, province, territory or even country) and unable to return.

Banish

To force to leave a country or place by official decree; exile
The spy was found guilty of treason and banished from the country.

Exile

The condition or period of being forced to live away from one's native country or home, especially as a punishment.

Banish

To drive away; expel
We banished all our doubts and fears.
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Exile

The condition or period of self-imposed absence from one's country or home
A writer living in exile in protest.

Banish

(heading) To send someone away and forbid that person from returning.
He was banished from the kingdom for his crimes.

Exile

One who lives away from one's native country, whether because of expulsion or voluntary absence.

Banish

To expel, especially from the mind.
Banish fear, qualm.

Exile

To send into exile; banish
The royal family was exiled after the uprising.

Banish

To condemn to exile, or compel to leave one's country, by authority of the ruling power.

Exile

(uncountable) The state of being banished from one's home or country.
He lived in exile.
They chose exile rather than assimilation.

Banish

To drive out, as from a home or familiar place; - used with from and out of.
How the ancient Celtic tongue came to be banished from the Low Countries in Scotland.

Exile

(countable) Someone who is banished from their home or country.
She lived as an exile.

Banish

To drive away; to compel to depart; to dispel.

Exile

(transitive) To send (someone or something) into exile.

Banish

Expel from a community or group

Exile

Forced separation from one's native country; expulsion from one's home by the civil authority; banishment; sometimes, voluntary separation from one's native country.
Let them be recalled from their exile.

Banish

Ban from a place of residence, as for punishment

Exile

The person expelled from his country by authority; also, one who separates himself from his home.
Thou art in exile, and thou must not stay.

Banish

Expel, as if by official decree;
He was banished from his own country

Exile

To banish or expel from one's own country or home; to drive away.
Calling home our exiled friends abroad.

Banish

Drive away;
Banish bad thoughts
Banish gloom

Exile

Small; slender; thin; fine.

Exile

Voluntarily absent from home or country

Exile

Expelled from home or country by authority

Exile

The act of expelling a person from their native land;
Men in exile dream of hope
His deportation to a penal colony
The expatriation of wealthy farmers
The sentence was one of transportation for life

Exile

Expel from a country;
The poet was exiled because he signed a letter protesting the government's actions

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