BANISHMENT Synonyms

• the state of being banished or ostracized (excluded from society by general consent)

• the act of excluding someone from society by general consent

• the act of expelling a person from their native land

• the expulsion from a country of an undesirable alien

• act of taking the place of another especially using underhanded tactics

• an event in which something is displaced without rotation

• the act of uniform movement

• (chemistry) a reaction in which an elementary substance displaces and sets free a constituent element from a compound

• (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that transfers affect or reaction from the original object to some more acceptable one

• to move something from its natural environment

• act of removing from office or employment

• action by a landlord that compels a tenant to leave the premises (as by rendering the premises unfit for occupancy); no physical expulsion or legal process is involved

• the expulsion of someone (such as a tenant) from the possession of land by process of law

• the act of forcing out someone or something

• squeezing out by applying pressure

• the act of expelling or projecting or ejecting

• the state of being banished or ostracized (excluded from society by general consent)

• an industrial city in central England; devastated by air raids during World War II; remembered as the home of Lady Godiva in the 11th century

• a decree that prohibits something

• rejection by means of an act of banishing or proscribing someone