Lajos decided to ostracize Olivia.
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Ostracize
//ˈɒstɹəsaɪz//
Synonyms for "ostracize" (119 found)
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8 entriesTranslations
60 translations across 19 languages.
Ancient Greek
2 entries- ἐξοστρακίζω verb (to ban a person from a city for five or ten years by the procedure of ostracism)
- ὀστρακίζω verb (to ban a person from a city for five or ten years by the procedure of ostracism)
Bulgarian
3 entries- остракирам verb (to ban a person from a city for five or ten years by the procedure of ostracism)
- отлъча verb (to exclude a person from a community or from society by not communicating with them or by refusing to acknowledge their presence)
- отлъчвам verb (to exclude a person from a community or from society by not communicating with them or by refusing to acknowledge their presence)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 放逐 verb (to exclude a person from a community or from society by not communicating with them or by refusing to acknowledge their presence)
- 流放 verb (to exclude a person from a community or from society by not communicating with them or by refusing to acknowledge their presence)
Dutch
4 entries- mijden verb (to exclude a person from a community or from society by not communicating with them or by refusing to acknowledge their presence)
- uitstoten verb (to exclude a person from a community or from society by not communicating with them or by refusing to acknowledge their presence)
- verbannen verb (to ban a person from a city for five or ten years by the procedure of ostracism)
- verbannen verb (to exclude a person from a community or from society by not communicating with them or by refusing to acknowledge their presence)
Finnish
3 entries- eristää verb (to exclude a person from a community or from society by not communicating with them or by refusing to acknowledge their presence)
- hyljeksiä verb (to exclude a person from a community or from society by not communicating with them or by refusing to acknowledge their presence)
- sulkea ulkopuolelle verb (to exclude a person from a community or from society by not communicating with them or by refusing to acknowledge their presence)
French
3 entries- mettre au ban verb (to exclude a person from a community or from society by not communicating with them or by refusing to acknowledge their presence)
- ostraciser verb (to ban a person from a city for five or ten years by the procedure of ostracism)
- ostraciser verb (to exclude a person from a community or from society by not communicating with them or by refusing to acknowledge their presence)
Georgian
1 entries- მოკვეთა verb (to exclude a person from a community or from society by not communicating with them or by refusing to acknowledge their presence)
German
4 entries- ausgrenzen verb (to exclude a person from a community or from society by not communicating with them or by refusing to acknowledge their presence)
- ausschließen verb (to exclude a person from a community or from society by not communicating with them or by refusing to acknowledge their presence)
- bannen verb (to exclude a person from a community or from society by not communicating with them or by refusing to acknowledge their presence)
- ostrakisieren verb (to ban a person from a city for five or ten years by the procedure of ostracism)
Greek
4 entries- εξοβελίζω verb (to exclude a person from a community or from society by not communicating with them or by refusing to acknowledge their presence)
- εξοστρακίζω verb (to exclude a person from a community or from society by not communicating with them or by refusing to acknowledge their presence)
- οστρακίζω verb (to ban a person from a city for five or ten years by the procedure of ostracism)
- οστρακίζω verb (to exclude a person from a community or from society by not communicating with them or by refusing to acknowledge their presence)
Hungarian
1 entries- kiközösít verb (to exclude a person from a community or from society by not communicating with them or by refusing to acknowledge their presence)
Italian
4 entries- bandire verb (to exclude a person from a community or from society by not communicating with them or by refusing to acknowledge their presence)
- escludere verb (to exclude a person from a community or from society by not communicating with them or by refusing to acknowledge their presence)
- ostracizzare verb (to ban a person from a city for five or ten years by the procedure of ostracism)
- ostracizzare verb (to exclude a person from a community or from society by not communicating with them or by refusing to acknowledge their presence)
Malay
1 entries- pulau verb (to exclude a person from a community or from society by not communicating with them or by refusing to acknowledge their presence)
Portuguese
3 entries- excluir verb (to exclude a person from a community or from society by not communicating with them or by refusing to acknowledge their presence)
- ostracizar verb (to ban a person from a city for five or ten years by the procedure of ostracism)
- ostracizar verb (to exclude a person from a community or from society by not communicating with them or by refusing to acknowledge their presence)
Romanian
1 entries- ostraciza verb (to ban a person from a city for five or ten years by the procedure of ostracism)
Russian
2 entries- отлуча́ть verb (to exclude a person from a community or from society by not communicating with them or by refusing to acknowledge their presence)
- отлучи́ть verb (to exclude a person from a community or from society by not communicating with them or by refusing to acknowledge their presence)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- ekskomunicírati verb (to exclude a person from a community or from society by not communicating with them or by refusing to acknowledge their presence)
- izopćiti verb (to exclude a person from a community or from society by not communicating with them or by refusing to acknowledge their presence)
- nizgvernat verb (to exclude a person from a community or from society by not communicating with them or by refusing to acknowledge their presence)
- prokuden verb (to exclude a person from a community or from society by not communicating with them or by refusing to acknowledge their presence)
Spanish
4 entries- aislar verb (to exclude a person from a community or from society by not communicating with them or by refusing to acknowledge their presence)
- excluir verb (to exclude a person from a community or from society by not communicating with them or by refusing to acknowledge their presence)
- marginar verb (to exclude a person from a community or from society by not communicating with them or by refusing to acknowledge their presence)
- ostracizar verb (to ban a person from a city for five or ten years by the procedure of ostracism)
Swedish
2 entries- frysa ut verb (to exclude a person from a community or from society by not communicating with them or by refusing to acknowledge their presence)
- sky verb (to exclude a person from a community or from society by not communicating with them or by refusing to acknowledge their presence)
Turkish
2 entries- aforoz etmek verb (to exclude a person from a community or from society by not communicating with them or by refusing to acknowledge their presence)
- aforozlamak verb (to exclude a person from a community or from society by not communicating with them or by refusing to acknowledge their presence)
Sample sentences
16 total sentences available.
Republics have been accused of being ungrateful. Aristides was ostracised for being called the Just, and Themistocles banished, after saving his country from desolation.
Source: wiktionary
[T]he person who was ostracised was obliged to leave Athens within ten days after the sentence, and unless a vote of the people recalled him before the expiration of that time, to stay in exile for ten years.
Source: wiktionary
The Athenian Hyperbolus, who had been ostracized some years before by the coalition of Nikias and Alkibiades, together with their respective partisans—ostracized (as Thucydides tells us) not from any fear of his power and over-transcendent influence, but from his bad character and from his being a disgrace to the city—and thus ostracized by an abuse of the institution—was now resident at Samos.
Source: wiktionary
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