Synonyms of the word ostracise


OSTRACISEBAN - BANISH - BLACKBALL - EXCLUDE - EXPEL - OSTRACIZE - SHUN - SHUT

ostracise

  • v. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of ostracize.

ban

  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To summon; to call out.
  • v. (transitive) To anathematize; to pronounce an ecclesiastical curse upon; to place under a ban.
  • v. (transitive) To curse; to execrate.
  • v. (transitive) To prohibit; to interdict; to proscribe; to forbid or block from participation.
  • v. (transitive) To curse; to utter curses or maledictions.
  • n. prohibition.
  • n. A public proclamation or edict; a summons by public proclamation. Chiefly, in early use, a summons to…
  • n. The gathering of the (French) king's vassals for war; the whole body of vassals so assembled, or liable…
  • n. (obsolete) A curse or anathema.
  • n. A pecuniary mulct or penalty laid upon a delinquent for offending against a ban, such as a mulct paid…
  • n. A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Romanian leu.
  • n. A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Moldovan leu.
  • n. A unit measuring information or entropy based on base-ten logarithms, rather than the base-two logarithms…
  • n. A title used in several states in central and south-eastern Europe between the 7th century and the 20th…

banish

  • v. (heading) To send someone away and forbid that person from returning.
  • v. To expel, especially from the mind.

blackball

  • n. A rejection, a vote against admitting someone.
  • n. A black ball used to indicate such a negative vote.
  • n. The act of so rejecting someone.
  • n. A kind of large black sweet; a niggerball.
  • n. A substance for blacking shoes, boots, etc. or for taking impressions of engraved work.
  • v. (transitive) To vote against, especially in an exclusive organization.
  • v. (transitive) To ostracize.

exclude

  • v. To bar (someone) from entering; to keep out.
  • v. To expel; to put out.
  • v. (law, of evidence) To refuse to accept as valid.
  • v. (medicine) To eliminate from diagnostic consideration.

expel

  • v. To eject or erupt.
  • v. (obsolete) To fire (a bullet, arrow etc.).
  • v. (transitive) To remove from membership.
  • v. (transitive) To deport.

ostracize

  • v. To exclude (a person) from society or from a community, by not communicating with (them) or by refusing…
  • v. (historical) To ban a person from the city of Athens for ten years.

shun

  • v. (transitive) To avoid, especially persistently.
  • v. (transitive) To escape (a threatening evil, an unwelcome task etc).
  • v. (transitive) To screen, hide.
  • v. (transitive) To shove, push.

shut

  • v. (transitive) To close, to stop from being open.
  • v. (intransitive) To close, to stop being open.
  • v. (transitive or intransitive, chiefly Britain) To close a business temporarily, or (of a business) to be…
  • v. To preclude; to exclude; to bar out.
  • adj. closed.
  • n. The act or time of shutting; close.
  • n. A door or cover; a shutter.
  • n. The line or place where two pieces of metal are welded together.
  • n. (Britain, Shropshire dialect) A narrow alley or passage acting as a short cut through the buildings between…

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