Definition of "banishing" []

• Present participle of banish. (verb)

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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!"
• "A cup of steaming hot miso soup just feels very nourishing and is very effective in banishing the winter blahs."
• "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."