banish
verb (used with object)
to expel from or relegate to a country or place by authoritative decree; condemn to exile.
is banishing
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present progressiveof banish (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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Faculty pay is surprisingly poor at Western Reserve, but a new scholarly spirit is banishing an old Babbittry and attracting able researchers who like the labs as well as the living.
From Time Magazine Archive
A ludicrous pretence of education is banishing every form of native simplicity.
From Born in Exile by George Gissing
I sometimes think that the rise of the culinary arts is banishing this fine old appreciation of fruits in their natural forms.
From The Holy Earth by L. H. (Liberty Hyde) Bailey
You desired to banish Count William, and you see he is banishing himself.
From The Tales Of The Heptameron, Vol. II. (of V.) by George Saintsbury
That State is banishing bar-rooms from its highways, and conducting the mountain-springs thither.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858 by Various
