ostracize

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  1. transitive verb To exclude from a group. See Synonyms at blackball.
  2. transitive verb To banish by ostracism, as in ancient Greece.

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  • Those who are will treat me as become gentlemen, as they do, and those who are not I will thank if they will "ostracize" me, for if they don't I will certainly "ostracize" them But to get into a cavalry regiment is the highest ambition of most cadets, and failing in that it is almost a toss-up between the infantry and the artillery. —  Henry Ossian Flipper, The Colored Cadet at West Point
  • Denise Finkel claims that her former classmates at Oceanside High School created a Facebook chat group to ostracize, ridicule, and disgrace her.
  • Teenagers grapple with the challenges of entering adulthood, but their struggles become all the more painful when other teens ridicule, ostracize, or demand conformity to group norms. —  uuworld.org: latest stories
  • When people in power want to ostracize or discriminate against another group, the first thing they do is dehumanize that group. —  The Daily Illini - The Independent Student Newspaper at the University of Illinois since 1871
  • New York teenager, Denise Finkel has sued Facebook for $3 million because, she claims, it carried a fictitious Facebook chat group to bully, ostracize, ridicule, abuse and disgrace her. —  Blogger News Network
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Greek ostrakizein, from ostrakon, shell, potsherd (from the potsherds used as ballots in voting for ostracism); see ost- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Greek ὀστρακίζειν, banish by vote, from ὄστρακον, a potsherd or tablet used in voting, a tile, an earthen vessel, the shell of a mussel, oyster, snail, etc., akin to ὀστρεον, an oyster: see oyster.
 

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/ˈɑstrəsaɪz/
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