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Definition: OSTRACIZED |
OSTRACIZEDImperative & past participle1. Of Ostracize |
Date "OSTRACIZED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1901. (references) |
Crosswords: OSTRACIZED |
| English words defined with "OSTRACIZED": banishment ♦ ostracism. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "OSTRACIZED": Ostracize. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Iraq | In 1978, Baghdad hosted an Arab League summit that condemned and ostracized Egypt for accepting the Camp David accords. (references) |
Egypt | Egypt was subsequently ostracized by other Arab states and ejected from the Arab League from 1979 to 1989. Egypt played an important role in the negotiations leading to the Madrid Peace Conference in 1991, which, under U.S. and Russian sponsorship, brought together all parties in the region to discuss Middle East peace. (references) | |
Human Rights | Uzbekistan | For example, after his June 2000 conviction, Abduvahid Yuldashev's wife claimed that when she turned to her mahalla committee for help after her husband was arrested, she was subjected to a mock trial and subsequently ostracized. (references) |
Minorities | Nepal | Those who choose to convert to other religions--in particular Hindu citizens who convert to Islam or Christianity--sometimes are ostracized socially. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "OSTRACIZED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 85.71% of the time. "OSTRACIZED" is used about 14 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 85.71% | 12 | 101,599 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 7.14% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 7.14% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 14 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
ostracized | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "OSTRACIZED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Arabic | منبوذ (abandoned, cast off, castaway, discarded, dismissed, dropped, eliminated, forsaken, outcast, pitched, rejected, removed, renounced, thrown away). (various references) | ||||
Chinese | "逐 (Ostracize, Ostracizing, Proscribe, Proscribed, Proscribing). (various references) | ||||
French | proscrit. (various references) | ||||
German | verbannte (banished, banned, exile), geächtet (outlawed, respectable). (various references) | ||||
Hebrew | מוחרם (boycotted, confiscated, sequestered), מורחק (expelled, removed), משומת (banned, excommunicated), מ ו"" (excommunicated, outcast, outlaw, pariah, untouchable). (various references) | ||||
Italian | esule (exile, refugee). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | ostracizeday | ||||
Misspellings | |
"OSTRACIZED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: obstracize, ostarcize, ostarcized, ostracised, ostracizer, ostracode, ostrakizo, ostrasize, ostrasized, ostricise, ostricised, ostricize. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "OSTRACIZED" (pronounced ô"strusī'zd) |
| 5 | -u s ī' z d | anglicized, criticized, emphasized, fantasized, hypothesized, metastasized, politicized, publicized, romanticized, synthesized. |
| 4 | -s ī' z d | capsized, circumcised, downsized, excised, exercised, midsized, outsized, undersized, unexercised. |
| 3 | -ī' z d | accessorized, advertised, agonized, aluminized, amortized, analyzed, annualized, antagonized, apologized, authorized, balkanized, brutalized, burglarized, capitalized, caramelized, carbonized, catalyzed, categorized, centralized, characterized, civilized, collateralized, collectivized, colonized, colorized, commercialized, compromised, computerized, containerized, creolized, criminalized, crystallized, customized, decentralized, demilitarized, demobilized, democratized, demonized, demoralized, denationalized, denuclearized, departmentalized, depressurized, deputized, desensitized, destabilized, digitized, disenfranchised, disorganized, dramatized, editorialized, energized, enfranchised, epitomized, equalized, eulogized, familiarized, federalized, fertilized, fictionalized, finalized, formalized, fossilized, galvanized, generalized, globalized, harmonized, hellenized, heroized, homogenized, hospitalized, humanized, hydrolyzed, hypnotized, idealized, idolized, immobilized, immunized, improvised, industrialized, internalized, ironized, itemized, jeopardized, legalized, legitimized, liberalized, lionized, localized, magnetized, marginalized, materialized, maximized, mechanized, memorialized, memorized, mesmerized, militarized, miniaturized, minimized, mischaracterized, mobilized, modernized, monopolized, motorized, nationalized, naturalized, neutralized, nonunionized, normalized, organized, oxidized, paralyzed, pasteurized, patronized, penalized, personalized, plagiarized, polarized, polymerized, popularized, pressurized, prioritized, privatized, professionalized, proselytized, pulverized, radicalized, randomized, rationalized, realized, reauthorized, recapitalized, recognized, regionalized, reorganized, revitalized, revolutionized, rubberized, sanitized, scandalized, scrutinized, securitized, sensitized, serialized, socialized, specialized, stabilized, standardized, sterilized, stigmatized, stylized, subsidized, summarized, supervised, symbolized, sympathized, synchronized, tantalized, televised, terrorized, theorized, traumatized, trivialized, unamortized, unauthorized, undercapitalized, underutilized, unionized, unorganized, unrealized, unrecognized, unsubsidized, unsupervised, urbanized, utilized, vandalized, vaporized, visualized, westernized, winterized. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-i-o-r-s-t-z" | |
-1 letter: ostracize. | |
-2 letters: acridest, asteroid, azotised, carotids, ceratoid, cordites, craziest, idocrase, redcoats. | |
-3 letters: aridest, astride, azotise, carotid, cestoid, coasted, coaster, coaters, codeias, coedits, cordate, cordite, costard, coziest, crazies, credits, cristae, czarist, dacoits, diaster, directs, disrate, doziest, drastic, editors, erotica, erotics, iodates, raciest, radices, redacts, redcoat, roadies, roasted, sarcoid, scarted, scoriae, sidecar, sortied, staider, stearic. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-i-o-r-s-t-z" | |
+2 letters: democratizes. | |
+3 letters: conservatized, democratizers. | |
+4 letters: subcategorized. | |
+5 letters: chlorothiazides, decolorizations, desacralization. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4F 53 54 52 41 43 49 5A 45 44 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)--- ... - .-. .- -.-. .. --.. . -.. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001111 01010011 01010100 01010010 01000001 01000011 01001001 01011010 01000101 01000100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)O S T R A C I Z E D |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004F 0053 0054 0052 0041 0043 0049 005A 0045 0044 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)49535452353743603938 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Arabic | معجم, قاموس, الوضوحية في الشيء, حد, تحديد, تعريف, التحديد, الإيضاحية, ترجمة من لغة أجنبية للغة الأم, ترجمة, إفتتان | العربية, عربي, اللغة العربية, 阿拉伯 , arabe, arabisch, ערבית, ערבי, arabo |
Chinese | 字典 , 定義 , 定义, 翻译 | الصينية, لغة الصين, صيني, الصيني أحد أبناء الصين, 汉语, 中 , 漢 , 中國 , Chinois, Chinesisch, cinese |
French | dictionnaire, définition, traduction | اللغة الفرنسية, فرنسي, الشعب الفرنسي, 法國 , 法文 , 法語 , 法语, français, französisch, צרפתית, צרפתי, francese |
German | wörterbuch, Übersetzung | ضرب من الرقص, جرماني, الماني, اللغة الألمانية, المانية, 德语, 德國 , 德文 , 德語 , allemand, deutsch, Deutsche, 'רמ ית, 'רמ י, tedesco |
Hebrew | אוצר מילים, "'"ר", "'בל", תור'מ ות, תר'ום, "עתק", "עתק | اليهودية, اللغة العبرية, يهودي, عبري, العبرية, 西伯来, 希伯來語 , hébreu, hebräisch, Hebräer, עברי, עברית, ebreo, ebraico |
Italian | dizionario, definizione, traduzione | الإيطالي, اللغة الإيطالية, إيطالي, شخص إيطالي, 意大利 , 意大利語 , 意大利语, italien, italienisch, איטלקית, איטלקי, italiano |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | الإنجليزية, الأنكليزي, إنكليزي, ترجمة إنكليزية, اللغة الإنكليزية, 英语, 英國 , 英文 , 英 , 英語 , anglais, englisch, א 'לית, inglese |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Quotations: Non-fiction 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Derivations 8. Rhymes | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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