ostracize

Verb

Meaning

To exile by ostracism; to banish by a popular vote, as at Athens.

To banish from society; to put under the ban; to cast out from social, political, or private favor; as, he was ostracized by his former friends.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

shun ban banish blackball cast out ostracise coventry cut avoid transport bar exile reject exclude isolate
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Antonyms

cocker include back allow bear receive
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Hypernyms

shut exclude expel shut out keep out throw out

Hyponyms

boycott

Related terms

ostracism ostrakon ostracum ostracon

Derivatives

ostracized ostracizing

Anagrams

socratize

Examples

The scientific fact of clairvoyance, telepathy, soul-flight, psychometry, and prophecy are well established by incontrovertible evidence yet to mention them in certain circles is to ostracize yourself. Benjamin Fish Austin

Ever since I spoke up, my colleagues ostracize me Source: Internet

Those who contract such alliances, as also their offspring, the divine laws not only ostracize but declare accursed, while the civil laws brand them as infamous and deprive them of hereditary rights. Source: Internet

“We should not incarcerate and ostracize low-risk offenders,” said Othman Attah, an attorney representing Milwaukee’s Islamic community. Source: Internet

In 442 BC, the Athenian public voted to ostracize Thucydides from the city for 10 years and Pericles was once again the unchallenged ruler of the Athenian political arena. Source: Internet

The local children ostracize her because her father was a thief and a wife-beater. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

ostracitoxin ostracizable ostracization ostracized ostracizer ostracod