What is "ostracize" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does ostracize mean in English? Meaning of ostracize definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "ostracize" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "ostracize": expel from a community or group

Verb

  • Meaning: expel from a community or group
  • Synonyms: ban banish blackball cast out ostracise ostracize shun
  • Hypernyms: expel kick out throw out
  • Meaning of "ostracize": avoid speaking to or dealing with

    Verb

  • Meaning: avoid speaking to or dealing with
  • Example: Ever since I spoke up, my colleagues ostracize me
  • Synonyms: ostracise ostracize
  • Hyponyms: boycott
  • Hypernyms: exclude keep out shut shut out
  • Synonyms:

    expel, blackball, blacklist, snub, shun, exclude, excommunicate, oust, cut, avoid, drop, displace, boycott, reject, expatriate, deport, shut out, throw out, cold-shoulder, cast out, expulse, leave in the cold,

    Antonyms:

    permit, welcome, include, admit, allow, accept, embrace,

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    ostracize in English: ostracize
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