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What does
ostracized mean

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os·tra·cize

/ˈästrəˌsīz/

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verb

past tense: ostracized; past participle: ostracized

exclude (someone) from a society or group.

"a group of people who have been ridiculed, ostracized, and persecuted for centuries"

Similar:

exclude

shun

spurn

cold-shoulder

give someone the cold shoulder

reject

repudiate

boycott

blackball

blacklist

cast off

cast out

shut out

avoid

ignore

snub

cut dead

keep at arm's length

leave out in the cold

bar

ban

debar

banish

exile

expel

send to Coventry

disfellowship

freeze out

hand someone the frozen mitt

blank

cut

excommunicate

Opposite:

welcome

accept

befriend

include

(in ancient Greece) banish (an unpopular or too powerful citizen) from a city for five or ten years by popular vote.

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exclude (someone) from a society or group.

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