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- verb   Present participle of 
banish . 
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Examples
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So I hope that the co-joined "Rally to Restore Sanity" and the "March to Keep Fear Alive" result in banishing fear from a sane nation!
Nelson Davis: Keeping Fear Alive Nelson Davis 2010
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So I hope that the co-joined "Rally to Restore Sanity" and the "March to Keep Fear Alive" result in banishing fear from a sane nation!
Nelson Davis: Keeping Fear Alive Nelson Davis 2010
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So I hope that the co-joined "Rally to Restore Sanity" and the "March to Keep Fear Alive" result in banishing fear from a sane nation!
Nelson Davis: Keeping Fear Alive Nelson Davis 2010
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A cup of steaming hot miso soup just feels very nourishing and is very effective in banishing the winter blahs.
Archive 2007-12-01 Nupur 2007
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Nonetheless, these approaches have been quite useful in banishing stereotypes and blanket assumptions, and other historians have often been pleased to cite their findings (as I have done), secretly relieved that someone else has performed the task of crunching the numbers.
Gutenber-e Help Page 2005
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Nonetheless, these approaches have been quite useful in banishing stereotypes and blanket assumptions, and other historians have often been pleased to cite their findings (as I have done above), secretly relieved that someone else has performed the task of crunching the numbers.
Gutenber-e Help Page 2005
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Davison here follows Orwell's later wishes in banishing them to an appendix.
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There is something contradictory in banishing the state from the economy while at the same time enshrining it as the ultimate source of authority in international relations.
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Nevertheless, they did not succeed in banishing my evil forebodings.
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She did, however, succeed in banishing from her face every expression of consciousness.
The Hidden Hand 1888
 
whichbe commented on the word banishing
The ability to send a person somewhere else, usually to trap them.
May 13, 2008