ostracize
Pronunciation Verb
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Pronunciation Verb
ostracize (ostracizes, present participle ostracizing; past and past participle ostracized) (American spelling, Oxford British English)
- (transitive, Ancient Greece, historical) To ban#Verb|ban a person from a city for five or ten years through the procedure of ostracism. [from mid 19th c.]
- (by extension) To exclude a person from a community or from society by not communicating with them or by refuse#Verb|refusing to acknowledge their presence; to refuse to associate#Verb|associate with or talk#Verb|talk to; to shun. [from mid 17th c.]
- Synonyms: blackball, cut someone dead, give someone the cold shoulder, send to Coventry, Thesaurus:ignore
- Antonyms: Thesaurus:pay attention
- French: ostraciser
- Italian: ostracizzare
- Portuguese: ostracizar
- French: ostraciser, mettre au ban
- German: ächten, ausgrenzen, ausschließen, bannen, verfemen, verbannen
- Italian: ostracizzare, bandire, escludere
- Portuguese: ostracizar, excluir
- Russian: отлуча́ть
- Spanish: aislar, excluir, marginar
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