What does banjax mean?
Banjax means (UK, originally Ireland, slang) To ruin or destroy..
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/ˈbæn.d͡ʒæks/ · verb
(UK, originally Ireland, slang) To ruin or destroy..
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I hoofed his backside till he went down all of a heap. That banjaxed his little game. You should have heard his hullabulloo.
Indeed, it seemed that the army was hopelessly banjaxed.
Emma had suggested that you hide, said your presence might banjax her position.
Fraser was looking at the flat, wet countryside and thinking about the French policeman who had banjaxed him with the truncheon.
I'm tellin' you the scholar, Bentham, made a banjax o' th' Will.
Use banjax when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Banjax means (UK, originally Ireland, slang) To ruin or destroy..
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The opposite depends on the specific sense.
For quotations using this term, see Citations:banjax.
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