Ban
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To forbid or block from participation.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: prohibition A subdivision of currency, equal to a 1/100th of a Romanian leu A subdivision of currency, equal to a 1/100th of a Moldavian леу A unit measuring information or entropy based on base-ten logarithms, rather than the base-two logarithms that define the bit.
Example sentence: I don't think that 60-70 percent of working-class white voters would have supported a Muslim ban before Donald Trump said something about a Muslim ban.
Banish
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To send someone away and forbid that person from returning.# With simple direct object.#: If you don't stop talking blasphemes, I will banish you.# With from.#: He was banished from the kingdom.# With out of.#* 1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte d'Arthur, Modern Library 1999, p. 640:#*: For I am banished out of the country of Logris for ever, that is for to say the country of England.# With two simple objects (person and place).#* 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.To expel, esp. from the mind.
Example sentence: Emotions are products of our mind, and we can actually train ourselves to choose whether we banish or embrace them.