The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word OSTRACISE
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More clues leading to the result OSTRACISE
- One’s in competition with East German exile
- Stories circulating about current ban
- Cut off actress I love madly
- Exile in wretched case riots
- Ordnance Survey copy is boxed to send to Coventry
- Shun Socrates, I fancy
- Banish farm vehicles back across French/Belgian river? On the contrary
- To banish care – it’s so tricky
- Banish East German Nazi maybe getting detailed east
- Maybe floats over in French river are freezing out
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The straight part
We know that "Banish" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case banish = ostracise.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does OSTRACISE mean?
OSTRACISE verb- To ban a person from a city for five or ten years through the procedure of ostracism.
- (by extension) To exclude a person from a community or from society by not communicating with them or by refusing to acknowledge their presence; to refuse to associate with or talk to; to shun.