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Ostracize

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Verb

1. ban, banish, blackball, cast out, ostracise, ostracize, shun

expel from a community or group

2. ostracise, ostracize

avoid speaking to or dealing with

Example Sentences:
'Ever since I spoke up, my colleagues ostracize me'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Ostracize

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verb (transitive)
1. 
to exclude or banish (a person) from a particular group, society, etc
2. 
(in ancient Greece) to punish by temporary exile

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Ostracize

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verb transitiveWord forms: ˈostraˌcized or ˈostraˌcizing
to banish, bar, exclude, etc. by ostracism

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Ostracize

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tr.v. os·tra·cized, os·tra·ciz·ing, os·tra·ciz·es
1. To exclude from a group or society: "Lepers wrapped in bandages—ostracized from their villages and unable to obtain work—rushed up to passing cars, waving crude handmade flags to warn of potholes, in the hope that motorists would fling loose change at them before they got too close" (John Ghazvinian). "Lionesses with worn and missing teeth are not ostracized from their pride, but live out their old age ... supported by the hunting of younger females" (Cindy Engel).
2. To banish by ostracism, as in ancient Greece.

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