banish vs drive away

banish and drive away both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
banish	No	No	Yes	No
drive away	No	No	Yes	No

As verbs, drive away is a hypernym of banish; that is, drive away is a word with a broader meaning than banish:

banish: drive away
drive away: force to go away; used both with concrete and metaphoric meanings

Other hypernyms of banish include chase away, dispel, drive off, drive out, run off, turn back.

banish (verb)	drive away (verb)
drive away	force to go away; used both with concrete and metaphoric meanings
expel, as if by official decree
expel from a community or group
ban from a place of residence, as for punishment