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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 move someone down to a lower rank or position.
  • expel verb To force someone out of a place, group, or organization, often as punishment.
  • ostracize verb To send someone out of a city for several years, as was done in ancient Athens.
  • outlaw noun A person who has broken the law and is hiding or on the run from it.
  • proscribe verb To ban something officially.

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

  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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