ostracize
11ostracize — verb To exclude (a person) from society or from a community, by not communicating with them or by refusing to acknowledge their presence; to refuse to talk to or associate with; to shun. Lesbian studies scholar Ramona Oswald has extended this… …
12ostracize — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. exclude, banish, bar, blackball; outcast. See exclusion. II (Roget s IV) v. Syn. exclude, banish, cast out, shun, blackball, boycott, blacklist, excommunicate, exile, expel, isolate, segregate,… …
13ostracize — also cise BrE verb (T) if a group of people ostracize someone, they stop accepting them as a member of the group: Reg was ostracized by the whole squadron, who cursed his actions. ostracism noun (U) …
14ostracize — transitive verb ( cized; cizing) Etymology: Greek ostrakizein to banish by voting with potsherds, from ostrakon shell, potsherd more at oyster Date: 1649 1. to exile by ostracism 2. to exclude from a group by common consent …
15ostracize — ostracizable, adj. ostracization, n. ostracizer, n. /os treuh suyz /, v.t., ostracized, ostracizing. 1. to exclude, by general consent, from society, friendship, conversation, privileges, etc.: His friends ostracized him after his father s arrest …
16ostracize — Synonyms and related words: avoid, ban, banish, bar, bar out, blackball, blacklist, blockade, boycott, cast out, categorically reject, cold shoulder, count out, cut, cut off, debar, deport, disallow, disapprove, disapprove of, disfavor,… …
17ostracize — The verb used for the banning or shunning of someone derives from the Greek verb ostrakizein. This was used for the act of selecting someone for banishment by voting with potsherds or tiles that bore the name of the person proposed for this… …
18ostracize — os|tra|cize [ astrə,saız ] verb transitive FORMAL to stop accepting someone as a member of a group and refuse to talk or listen to them …
19ostracize — [[t]ɒ̱strəsaɪz[/t]] ostracizes, ostracizing, ostracized VERB: usu passive If someone is ostracized, people deliberately behave in an unfriendly way towards them and do not allow them to take part in any of their social activities. [FORMAL] [be V… …
20ostracize — or ostracise ɒstrəsʌɪz verb 1》 exclude from a society or group. 2》 (in ancient Greece) banish (a citizen) from a city for five or ten years by popular vote. Derivatives ostracism noun Origin C17: from Gk ostrakizein, from ostrakon shell or… …
