verbannen — meaning in English
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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.
- demote verb To lower the rank or status of.
- expel verb To force someone out of a place, group, or organization, often as punishment.
- ostracize verb To ban a person from a city for five or ten years through the procedure of ostracism.
- outlaw noun A person who has broken the law and is hiding or on the run from it.
- proscribe verb To forbid or prohibit.
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.
- demote (transitive) To relegate.
- expel (transitive) To deport.
- 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.]
- outlaw (transitive) To place a ban upon.
- proscribe (transitive) To banish or exclude.
abandon — full definition
- verb To leave someone or something behind for good, especially when you have a duty to stay.
- verb To give up an activity, plan, or belief completely.
- noun Total freedom from restraint or inhibition, especially in the phrase "with abandon".
banish — full definition
- verb To officially force someone to leave a place, usually as punishment, and forbid their return.
- verb To drive an unwanted thought or feeling from one's mind.