banish vs drive out

banish and drive out both are verbs.

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

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

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

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

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