drive off vs banish

drive off and banish both are verbs.

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

As verbs, banish is a hyponym of drive off; that is, banish is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than drive off:

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

Other hyponyms of drive off include fire, clear the air, shoo, shoo away, shoo off.

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