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ostracize

verbGraduateELO 1,550CATSAT
WORD COMPOSITION
suffix-izeto make, to cause, to become
DEFINITION

expel from a community or group

WEBSTER'S 1913

To exile by ostracism; to banish by a popular vote, as at Athens.

ETYMOLOGY

Greek 'ostrakon' (tile or potsherd used for voting)

SYNONYMS
ANTONYMS
IN LITERATURE

Cooke was out on the golf links, chaperoning some of the Asquith young women whose mothers had not seen fit to ostracize Mohair.

Winston Churchill, Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill
✨ WORD STORY

Nadia, the coffee queen of Bogotá, was shocked when her café community decided to ostracize her for adding vanilla syrup to their sacred brew. Her latte art looked lonely without friends to surround it.

📖 TALE

At Jakarta's Glodok electronics market, Anya approached a group of friends gathered around a colorful display of gadgets. As she reached out to touch a sleek phone, they exchanged glances and silently moved away, leaving her alone in the buzz of haggling voices, effectively ostracizing her from their circle.

IN USE

Those who contract such alliances, as also their offspring, the divine laws not only ostracize but declare accursed, while the civil laws brand them as infamous and deprive them of hereditary rights.

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