ostracize
IPA: ˈɔstrʌsaɪz
verb
- (transitive, Ancient Greece, historical) To ban a person from a city for five or ten years through the procedure of ostracism.
- (by extension) To exclude a person from a community or from society by not communicating with them or by refusing to acknowledge their presence; to refuse to associate with or talk to; to shun.
Advertisement
Examples of "ostracize" in Sentences
- Finally you understand the vocabulary word ostracize.
- The group had said it would "ostracize" Ingersoll for its machinery sales in Iran.
- "ostracize" originated in 1649, after the KJV was written; ἐκβάλλω is best translated as
- The group had said it would "ostracize" Ingersoll-Rand for its machinery sales into Iran.
- "since it's your duty to ostracize and bake, _ostracize_ and _bake_, and be done with your ridiculous fancies."
- Those who are will treat me as become gentlemen, as they do, and those who are not I will thank if they will "ostracize" me, for if they don't I will certainly "ostracize" them.
Related Links
synonyms for ostracizeAdvertisement
Advertisement