banish
(verb) drive away; “banish bad thoughts”; “banish gloom”
banish, relegate, bar
(verb) expel, as if by official decree; “he was banished from his own country”
banish, ban, ostracize, ostracise, shun, cast out, blackball
(verb) expel from a community or group
banish, ban
(verb) ban from a place of residence, as for punishment
Source: WordNet® 3.1
banish (third-person singular simple present banishes, present participle banishing, simple past and past participle banished)
(heading) To send someone away and forbid that person from returning.
(with simple direct object)
(with from)
(dated, with out of)
(archaic, with two simple objects (person and place))
To expel, especially from the mind.
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Source: Wiktionary
Ban"ish, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Banished(p. pr. & vb. n. Banishing.] Etym: [OF. banir, F. bannir, LL. bannire, fr. OHG. bannan to summon, fr. ban ban. See Ban an edict, and Finish, v. t.]
1. To condemn to exile, or compel to leave one's country, by authority of the ruling power. "We banish you our territories." Shak.
2. 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. Blair.
3. To drive away; to compel to depart; to dispel. "Banish all offense." Shak.
Syn.
– To Banish, Exile, Expel. The idea of a coercive removal from a place is common to these terms. A man is banished when he is forced by the government of a country (be he a foreigner or a native) to leave its borders. A man is exiled when he is driven into banishment from his native country and home. Thus to exile is to banish, but to banish is not always to exile. To expel is to eject or banish, summarily or authoritatively, and usually under circumstances of disgrace; as, to expel from a college; expelled from decent society.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
8 May 2025
(noun) the act of protecting something by surrounding it with material that reduces or prevents the transmission of sound or heat or electricity
Coffee starts as a yellow berry, changes into a red berry, and then is picked by hand to harvest. The red berry is de-shelled through a water soaking process and what’s left inside is the green coffee bean. This bean then dries in the sun for 3-5 days, where it is then packed and ready for sale.
