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- pronunciation:
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saIz
- features:
- Word Combinations (verb)
| part of speech: |
transitive verb |
| inflections: |
ostracizes, ostracizing, ostracized |
| definition 1: |
to exclude or shun, by general agreement of the group imposing the exclusion.
The non-conforming teenager was ostracized by many of her fellow students.During the war, the community ostracized him for being a pacifist.- synonyms:
- blackball, exclude, shun
- antonyms:
- welcome
- similar words:
- bar, blacklist, debar, disown, isolate, rebuff, reject, repudiate
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| definition 2: |
to banish (someone) from his or her native land.
Some dissident writers were ostracized by the government.- synonyms:
- banish, exile, expatriate
- similar words:
- blackball, disenfranchise, eject, expel, oust, transport, uproot
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| related words: |
banish, deport, exile, scorn, segregate, snub |
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| derivation: |
ostracizer (n.) |
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