VERB | social | ostracize, banish, ban, ostracise, shun, cast out, blackball | expel from a community or group |
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social | ostracize, ostracise | avoid speaking to or dealing with |
Sounds | ao'strahsay.z | |
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Rhymes | actualize ... womanize: 266 rhymes with ayz... |
Meaning | Expel from a community or group. | |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody | |
Synonyms | banish, ban, ostracise, shun, cast out, blackball | |
Broader | expel, throw out, kick out | Force to leave or move out |
Spanish | desterrar, exiliar, expeler, expulsar, marginar | |
Catalan | bandejar, desterrar, exiliar, marginar | |
Nouns | ostracism | the act of excluding someone from society by general consent |
ostracism | the state of being banished or ostracized (excluded from society by general consent) |
Meaning | avoid speaking to or dealing with. | |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody | |
Example | "Ever since I spoke up, my colleagues ostracize me" | |
Synonym | ostracise | |
Entails | avoid | Stay clear from |
Narrower | boycott | refuse to sponsor |
Broader | exclude, keep out, shut out, shut | prevent from entering |
Spanish | exiliar, marginar | |
Catalan | condemnar a l'ostracisme, exiliar, fer el buit, marginar | |
Nouns | ostracism | the act of excluding someone from society by general consent |
ostracism | the state of being banished or ostracized (excluded from society by general consent) |
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