Usually means: Expelling something or someone permanently.
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  1. banishing: Merriam-Webster
  2. banishing: Collins English Dictionary
  3. banishing: Vocabulary.com
  4. Banishing, banishing: Wordnik
  5. banishing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. banishing: Wiktionary
  7. Banishing, banishing: Dictionary.com
  8. banishing: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Banishing: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Banishing: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. Banishing: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. banishing: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. banishing: FreeDictionary.org
  14. banishing: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. banishing: Legal dictionary

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▸ noun:  A magical ritual intended to remove negative spiritual influences.

Similar:
relegate, ostracize, shun, cast out, ban, blackball, bar, unbewitcher, demonifuge, purging, more...

Opposite:
welcoming, inviting, including, accepting

Types:
exorcism, smudging, salt circle, binding spell, hex-breaking spell, dispelling charm, warding spell, more...

Phrases:
Lesser banishing ritual of the pentagram, The Banishing, banishing from society, more...

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Similar:
relegate, ostracize, shun, cast out, ban, blackball, bar, unbewitcher, demonifuge, purging, more...

Opposite:
welcoming, inviting, including, accepting

Types:
exorcism, smudging, salt circle, binding spell, hex-breaking spell, dispelling charm, warding spell, more...

Phrases:
Lesser banishing ritual of the pentagram, The Banishing, banishing from society, more...



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