Synonyms for ostracize
Definitions
- v. 1
To exclude a person from a community or from society by not communicating with them or by refusing to acknowledge their presence; to refuse to associate with or talk to; to shun.
- v. 2
To ban a person from a city for five or ten years through the procedure of ostracism.
Related words
- Word family
- ostracization ostracism
- Other spellings
- ostracise UK
Forms
- Past participle
- ostracized
e.g. ostracized → expelled, banished, shunned, proscribed…
Example sentences
- expel The elders decided to expel him from the village.
- shun Please don’t shun me because I have this gift.
- banish I've tried to banish the memory of him crying.
- ignore If you ignore the past, you jeopardize the future.
By length
- 3 letters
- ban1
- 4 letters
- shun1
- 5 letters
- exile2, expel2, leper2
- 6 letters
- ignore2, banish2
- 9 letters
- blackball2, proscribe2
- 10 letters
- expatriate4
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (exile2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- ostraciser
- Deutsch
- verbannen