Ostracize

Definition: Ostracize

Ostracize

Verb

1. Expel from a community or group.

2. Avoid speaking to or dealing with; "Ever since I spoke up, my colleagues ostracize me".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Note: Ostracize \Os"tra*cize\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Ostracized; present participle verb or noun Ostracizing.]. (references)

Synonyms: Ostracize

Disapprobation

Decry; cry down, run down, frown down; clamor, hiss, hoot, mob, ostracize, blacklist; draw up a round robin, sign a round robin.

Punishment

Banish, exile, transport, expel, ostracize; rusticate; drum out; dismiss, disbar, disbench; strike off the roll, unfrock; post.

Seclusion Exclusion

Cut, cut dead; refuse to associate with, refuse to acknowledge; look cool upon, turn one's back upon, shut the door upon; repel, blackball, excommunicate, exclude, exile, expatriate; banish, outlaw, maroon, ostracize, proscribe, cut off from, send to Coventry, keep at arm's length, draw a cordon round.

Crosswords: Ostracize

Health

These families may marginalize or ostracize the identified person. (references)

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Albanian

tëhuaj (wean), izoloj (insulate, isolate, lag, seclude, segregate, sequester). (various references)

Arabic 

‏نفى من غير محاكمة, ‏وضع في الكرنتينة. (various references)

Bulgarian 

остракирам, отлъчвам от обществото, пращам в изгнание, пращам на заточение (lag). (various references)

Chinese 

�"�逐 (Ostracized, Ostracizing, Proscribe, Proscribed, Proscribing). (various references)

Czech

vyobcovat, vylouèit ze spoleènosti, ignorovat (brush off, cold shoulder, ignore, snub). (various references)

Farsi 

ازوجهه عمومی انداختن , ازحقوق اجتماعی وسیاسی محروم کردن , بااراء عمومی تبعیدکردن . (various references)

French

mettre en quarantaine, mettre au ban de la société, frapper d'ostracisme, bannir. (various references)

German

verbannen (banish, banishing, dispel, exile, proscribe, relegate, to banish, to dispel, to ostracize). (various references)

Greek 

εξοστρακίζω (ostracise). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל� �"ות (banish, cast out, excommunicate, expel, remove). (various references)

Hungarian

számûz (banish, deport, exile, outlaw, proscribe, relegate), kiközösít (ban, to blackball, to boycott, to excommunicate, to ostracize, to put under a ban), cserépszavazással számûz. (various references)

Indonesian

memboikot (boycott). (various references)

Italian

esiliare (banish, deport, dispel, exile), dare l'ostracismo (ostracise). (various references)

Manx

dooney magh (ostracism, seclude). (various references)

Pig Latin

ostracizeay.(various references)

Portuguese

proscrever (outlaw, proclaim, proscribe, taboo), pôr � parte (make away, outgrow, segregate, select, set apart, set aside, single), esquecer (escape, forget, unlearn), desterrar (banish, deport, exile, relegate, transport), deixar de conviver com, condenar ao ostracismo, banir (ban, banish, cast out, deport, do away with, exile, expatriate, get rid of, outlaw, proscribe, relegate, remove, rusticate, sequester, taboo). (various references)

Romanian

ostraciza (banish, exclude, expel), proscrie (cast off, outlaw, proscribe). (various references)

Russian 

подвергать остракизму, изгонять из общества. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

prognati (banishment, exile, proscribe). (various references)

Spanish

condenar al ostracismo. (various references)

Swedish

utesluta (eliminate, exclude, leave out, preclude, preclude from, rule out, shut out), straffa med ostracism, frysa ut (freeze out). (various references)

Thai

ขับไล่ (oust, oust from). (various references)

Turkish

sürmek (apply, banish, bedaub, cast out, coat, continue, daub, distribute, drive, drive out, endure, exile, expatriate, expel, hang over, herd, last, lay on, lead, outlaw, persist, pitchfork, relegate, roll, rub, run, slip in, smear, splash, spread, steer, stock, stream, stuff, throw out, till, tool along, transport, wipe on), sürgün etmek (banish, deport, exile, expatriate, expel, relegate), ilişkiyi kesmek (break with). (various references)

Ukrainian

виганяти із суспільства, піддавати остракізму (taboo, tabu). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "ostracize": ostracized, ostracizes. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Ostracize" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: obstracize, ostarcize, ostracizer, ostracode, ostrakizo, ostrasize, ostricise, ostricize. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: craziest.

-2 letters: azotise, coaster, coaters, coziest, crazies, cristae, czarist, erotica, erotics, raciest, scoriae, stearic.

-3 letters: actors, airest, aorist, aortic, ariose, aristo, azotes, azotic, carets, caries, cartes, caster, castor, caters, cerias, cestoi, citers, coarse, coater, coatis, corset, cosier, costae, costar, coster, cozier, cozies, crates, crazes, crista, crozes, ericas, erotic, ersatz, escort, oaters, orates, racist.

+1 letter: factorizes, narcotizes, ostracized, ostracizes.

+2 letters: categorizes.

+3 letters: achromatizes, conservatize, democratizes, romanticizes, tropicalizes.

+4 letters: conservatized, conservatizes, containerizes, creolizations, democratizers, pictorializes, racemizations, subcategorize.

+5 letters: bacterizations, cartelizations, cauterizations, collateralizes, conservatizing, eroticizations, fractionalizes, mercerizations, sclerotization, secularization, securitization, subcategorized, subcategorizes.