verbannen — meaning in English

English meaning

• abandon verb To leave someone or something behind for good, especially when you have a duty to stay.
• banish verb To officially force someone to leave a place, usually as punishment, and forbid their return.
• exile noun The state of being forced to live away from your home country, often for political reasons.
• expatriate adj Living outside of one's own country.
• ostracize verb To ban a person from a city for five or ten years through the procedure of ostracism.
• oust verb To force someone out of a position of power or place, often against their will.
• proscribe verb To forbid or prohibit.
• relegate verb Exile, banish, remove, or send away.

Senses

verbannen is used for these senses in English:

• abandon (transitive, obsolete) To cast out; to banish; to expel; to reject. [Attested from the mid 16th century until the mid 17th century.]
• banish (transitive) To send (someone) away and forbid them from returning.
• exile (transitive) To send (someone or something) into exile.
• expatriate (transitive) To banish; to drive or force (a person) from his own country; to make an exile of.
• ostracize (by extension) To exclude a person from a community or from society by not communicating with them or by refusing to acknowledge their presence; to refuse to associate with or talk to; to shun. [from mid 17th c.]
• oust (transitive) To expel; to remove.
• proscribe (transitive) To banish or exclude.
• relegate (transitive, done to a person) Exile or banish to a particular place.

abandon — full definition

1. verb To leave someone or something behind for good, especially when you have a duty to stay.
2. verb To give up an activity, plan, or belief completely.
3. noun Total freedom from restraint or inhibition, especially in the phrase "with abandon".

banish — full definition

1. verb To officially force someone to leave a place, usually as punishment, and forbid their return.
2. verb To drive an unwanted thought or feeling from one's mind.

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