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to ostracize
01
to exclude someone from a community or group as a form of punishment or social rejection
Transitive: to ostracize sb
Grammatical Information
Composition
derived
Action verb
Regular
Present tense
ostracize
3rd person singular
ostracizes
Present participle
ostracizing
Past simple
ostracized
Past participle
ostracized
Examples
After the scandal, he was ostracized by his colleagues and no longer invited to company events.
