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Ostracize   /ˈɔstrəsˌaɪz/   Listen
Ostracize

verb
(past & past part. ostracized; pres. part. ostracizing)
1.
Expel from a community or group.  Synonyms: ban, banish, blackball, cast out, ostracise, shun.
2.
Avoid speaking to or dealing with.  Synonym: ostracise.






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"Ostracize" Quotes from Famous Books



... coming to a final contest with Thucydides, which of the two should ostracize the other out of the country, and having gone through this peril, he threw his antagonist out, and broke up the confederacy that had been organized against him. So that now all schism and division being at an end, and the city brought to evenness and unity, he got all Athens and all affairs ...
— Plutarch's Lives • A.H. Clough



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