Definition of "ostracize" []

• To exclude from a group. See Synonyms at blackball. (verb-transitive)
• To banish by ostracism, as in ancient Greece. (verb-transitive)

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• ""since it's your duty to ostracize and bake, _ostracize_ and _bake_, and be done with your ridiculous fancies.""
• "Finally you understand the vocabulary word ostracize."
• "The group had said it would "ostracize" Ingersoll for its machinery sales in Iran."