different between banish vs boycott

English

Etymology

From Middle English banysshen, from Old French banir (“to proclaim, ban, banish”) and Old English bannan, from Proto-Germanic *bannan? (“curse, forbid”). Compare to French bannir.

Pronunciation

• enPR: b?n'?sh, IPA^(key): /?bæn??/
• Rhymes: -æn??

Verb

banish (third-person singular simple present banishes, present participle banishing, simple past and past participle banished)

1. (heading) To send someone away and forbid that person from returning.
   1. (with simple direct object)

      If you don't stop talking blasphemies, I will banish you.

   2. (with from)

      He was banished from the kingdom.
   3. (dated, with out of)
   4. (archaic, with two simple objects (person and place))
      • , II.10:

        he never referreth any one unto vertue, religion, or conscience: as if they were all extinguished and banished the world […].

      • 1796, Matthew Lewis, The Monk, Folio Society, 1985, p.190:

        Then yours she will never be! You are banished her presence; her mother has opened her eyes to your designs, and she is now upon her guard against them.

2. To expel, especially from the mind.

Related terms

• banishment

Translations

Further reading

• banish in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• banish in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• banish at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Bhasin, ash-bin, ashbin, bash in, bashin', nisbah

English

Etymology

From Charles Boycott, an English evicting land agent in Ireland who was subject to a boycott organized by the Irish Land League in 1880. For the surname see Boycott.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?b??k?t/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?b??k?t/

Verb

boycott (third-person singular simple present boycotts, present participle boycotting, simple past and past participle boycotted)

1. To abstain, either as an individual or a group, from using, buying, or dealing with someone or some organization as an expression of protest.

Synonyms

• blackball, blacklist, embargo, withhold patronage; see also Thesaurus:boycott

Derived terms

• boycotter
• boycottee
• secondary boycott

Related terms

• buycott

Descendants

• ? French: boycott
• ? Portuguese: boicote

Translations

Noun

boycott (plural boycotts)

1. The act of boycotting.

Synonyms

• embargo, taboo; see also Thesaurus:sanction

Translations

Further reading

• boycott on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English boycott.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?j.k?t/

Noun

boycott m (plural boycotts)

1. boycott

Related terms

• boycotter
• boycotteur

Further reading

• “boycott” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).