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All ostracise synonyms

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verb ostracise

  • exclude — Deny (someone) access to or bar (someone) from a place, group, or privilege.
  • banish — If someone or something is banished from a place or area of activity, they are sent away from it and prevented from entering it.
  • shun — to keep away from (a place, person, object, etc.), from motives of dislike, caution, etc.; take pains to avoid.
  • ignore — to refrain from noticing or recognizing: to ignore insulting remarks.
  • snub — to treat with disdain or contempt, especially by ignoring.
  • excommunicate — Officially exclude (someone) from participation in the sacraments and services of the Christian Church.
  • expel — Deprive (someone) of membership of or involvement in a school or other organization.
  • blackball — If the members of a club blackball someone, they vote against that person being allowed to join their club.
  • blacklist — If someone is on a blacklist, they are seen by a government or other organization as being one of a number of people who cannot be trusted or who have done something wrong.
  • exile — The state of being barred from one's native country, typically for political or punitive reasons.
  • avoid — If you avoid something unpleasant that might happen, you take action in order to prevent it from happening.
  • boycott — If a country, group, or person boycotts a country, organization, or activity, they refuse to be involved with it in any way because they disapprove of it.
  • cold-shoulder — to snub; show indifference to.
  • cut — If you cut something, you use a knife or a similar tool to divide it into pieces, or to mark it or damage it. If you cut a shape or a hole in something, you make the shape or hole by using a knife or similar tool.
  • deport — If a government deports someone, usually someone who is not a citizen of that country, it sends them out of the country because they have committed a crime or because it believes they do not have the right to be there.
  • displace — to compel (a person or persons) to leave home, country, etc.
  • drop — a small quantity of liquid that falls or is produced in a more or less spherical mass; a liquid globule.
  • expatriate — A person who lives outside their native country.
  • oust — to expel or remove from a place or position occupied: The bouncer ousted the drunk; to oust the prime minister in the next election.
  • reject — to refuse to have, take, recognize, etc.: to reject the offer of a better job.
  • cast out — To cast out something or someone means to get rid of them because you do not like or need them, or do not want to take responsibility for them.
  • expulse — To expel.
  • shut out — to put (a door, cover, etc.) in position to close or obstruct.
  • throw out — to propel or cast in any way, especially to project or propel from the hand by a sudden forward motion or straightening of the arm and wrist: to throw a ball.
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