Ostracize

/ˈɒstɹəsaɪz/

Synonyms for "ostracize" (152 found)

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grimace atignoreisolatekeep outleave outlock outlook askance atlook black uponnot approvenot go fornot hear ofnot hold withobjectobject toomitopposeoustoutlawpass overpreclude
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prohibitproscribeprotestrejectrelegaterepudiaterun outrusticatesay no tosegregatesend awaysend downsend to coventryshouldershunshut outsnobsnubspurntabootake exceptiontake exception tothink ill ofthink little ofthrow outthrust outthumb downtransportview with disfavor
Noun(12 words)
Adjective(2 words)

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excludeexpelkeep outkick outshutshut outthrow out

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academic ostracisminstitutional ostracismpolitical ostracismpublic ostracismsocial ostracism

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Lajos decided to ostracize Olivia.

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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.

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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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