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Ostracize   /ˈɔstrəsˌaɪz/   Listen
Ostracize

verb
(past & past part. ostracized; pres. part. ostracizing)
1.
Expel from a community or group.  Synonyms: ban, banish, blackball, cast out, ostracise, shun.
2.
Avoid speaking to or dealing with.  Synonym: ostracise.






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"Ostracize" Quotes from Famous Books



... retire from the world; take the veil; abandon &c 624; sport one's oak [Slang]. cut, cut dead; refuse to associate with, refuse to acknowledge; look cool upon, turn one's back upon, shut the door upon; repel, blackball, excommunicate, exclude, exile, expatriate; banish, outlaw, maroon, ostracize, proscribe, cut off from, send to Coventry, keep at arm's length, draw a cordon round. depopulate; dispeople^, unpeople^. Adj. secluded, sequestered, retired, delitescent^, private, bye; out of the world, ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget

... little credit for its lovely character, it being the friendliest wild animal known to man and never offensive except when put upon. Wasn't we all offensive at those times? And just because the skunk happened to be superbly gifted in this respect, was that any reason to ostracize him? ...
— Ma Pettengill • Harry Leon Wilson



Words linked to "Ostracize" :   shut out, shut, shun, throw out, cast out, avoid, kick out, ostracise, ostracism, boycott, expel, keep out, exclude



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