HOW TO PRONOUNCE
exile
/ˈɛɡˌzaɪl/
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What does exile mean?
noun
- The state of being banished from one's home or country.
- Someone who is banished from their home or country.
verb
- To send (someone or something) into exile.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈɛɡˌzaɪl/
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They came here--the exile and the stranger, brave but frightened--to find a place where a man could be his own man.
Thereupon Castruccio seized Benedetto and put him to death, and beheaded many other noble citizens, and drove their families into exile.
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MARCIUS.—As with a man busied about decrees, Condemning some to death and some to exile, Ransoming him or pitying, threatening the other.
The closing scene reveals Jocasta slain by her own hand and Oedipus blinded by his own act and praying for death or exile.
However this be, it is certain Marius, in his exile and greatest extremities, would often say, that he should attain a seventh consulship.