banish vs drive off

banish and drive off both are verbs.

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

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

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

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

banish (verb)	drive off (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