Banish and Except

Banish

Banish verb - To force to leave a country.

Except and banish are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Except" instead a verb "Banish".

Nearby Words: banishment, banishing

Except

Except verb - To prevent the participation, consideration, or inclusion of.
Usage example: we'll have to except members who haven't paid their club dues from voting in the election

Banish and except are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Banish" instead a verb "Except".

Common collocations

ghost banish ghost except ghost
son banish son except son

Both words in one sentence

  • Muggles Do It Better At first, they try to banish him (doesn't work because a genie is immune to all spells except from his own country, which they don't know).
  • At first, they try to banish him (which doesn't work because a genie is immune to all spells except from his own country, which they don't know).
  • At the end of Eternal Darkness, the ghosts of all the player characters appear to help Alex fight Augustus Pious and stop his Ancient, except Edward Roivas, who instead uses the massive magic circle that makes up the final level to banish the Ancient the player summons to combat the first one.
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