放逐|ほうちくhouchiku[0]heiban (flat)

1. noun, suru verb, transitive verbexpulsion; ousting; ejection; dismissal; banishment

• Synonym追放ついほうWrittenThe standard word for expelling someone from an organization or society; also used for eliminating things like poverty. Much more common than 「放逐」.
• Synonym追い出すおいだすNeutralTo drive someone out — shooing them from a room or ousting them from a group. More colloquial than the written 「放逐」.
• Synonym駆逐くちくWrittenWritten-style: driving out or wiping out enemies or foreign elements, as in 「悪貨が良貨を駆逐」.
• Synonym追い立ておいたてNeutralNoun: forcibly driving people or animals out of a place; often used for pressing tenants to move out.
• SynonymおんだすCasualColloquial: forcing someone out the door by strength. Rougher and more casual than 「放逐」.
• Synonym追い出しおいだしNeutralNoun for driving someone out; also the drum beat signalling the end of the day's play at the theatre or in sumo. More everyday than 「放逐」.
• Related追い払うおいはらうNeutralTo chase or drive off a person or animal that is in the way; it need not mean expulsion from a society or organization, and is more everyday than 「放逐」.
• Related追い立てるおいたてるNeutralTo drive on or hound — herding cattle along, or pressing a tenant to leave. Leans toward urging and forcing someone out.
• Related排斥はいせきWrittenWritten-style: rejecting and shunning someone — an attitude of refusal; the person is not necessarily driven out.
• Related排除はいじょWrittenWritten-style: removing or clearing away; usually takes things — obstacles, hazards — as its object.
• Related放り出すほうりだすNeutralTo throw or toss out; leans toward dumping something or abandoning it — or giving up — rather than expelling a person.
• Related押っ放り出すおっぽりだすCasualColloquial and coarse: forcibly throwing someone out or firing them, or giving up on something. Rougher than 「放逐」.
• Related追い散らすおいちらすNeutralTo scatter — driving people or animals off in all directions. Emphasizes dispersal rather than banishment.
• Related追いやるおいやるNeutralTo drive away, or force someone into a plight such as bankruptcy. Leans toward the situation the person is pushed into.
• Related追っ払うおっぱらうCasualColloquial version of 「追い払う」: to chase away. More casual than 「放逐」.
• Related打ち払ううちはらうWrittenWritten-style: brushing off dust or repelling an enemy. Leans toward driving off by force.
• Related撃ち払ううちはらうWrittenRare and written-style: driving someone off with gunfire. More violent than 「放逐」.
• Relatedほっぽり出すほっぽりだすCasualColloquial: tossing something out, dumping it, or throwing a person out. More casual than 「放逐」.
• Antonym登用とうようWrittenWritten-style: appointing or promoting able people to high positions — the opposite of banishing them.
• Antonym召還しょうかんFormalFormal: recalling an envoy or ambassador home. Opposes 「放逐」 only in direction — sending out versus calling back.

「放逐」 is written-style: banishing someone from the society, organization or country they belong to, as in 「国外に放逐される」. In everyday speech pick 「追放」; to drive someone out of a room or group, 「追い出す」; to chase off a nuisance, 「追い払う」. 「放り出す」 and 「ほっぽり出す」 lean toward dumping or giving up, 「排斥」 toward rejecting without expelling, 「排除」 toward removing things, and 「駆逐」 toward driving out enemies. The opposite of banishing someone is 「登用」.

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1. 追い払おいはらうこと。追放ついほうすること。