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Verb: ostracise  'ós-tru`sIz
Usage: Brit (=ostracize)
  1. Expel from a community or group
    - banish, ban, ostracize, shun, cast out, blackball
     
  2. Avoid speaking to or dealing with
    "Ever since I spoke up, my colleagues ostracise me"
    - ostracize

Derived forms: ostracises, ostracised, ostracising

See also: ostracism

Type of: exclude, expel, keep out, kick out, shut, shut out, throw out

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