Definition of "ostracizes" [ostracizes]

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ostracize. (verb)

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• "He’s one of those players who self-ostracizes, which isn’tgood strategy."
• "Even though he knows it is far more likely that this building simply decayed as a result of standard Communist neglect, he cannot will his mind from entertaining the notion that it played some formal role for the Wehrmacht during the war and was thus condemned to rot as punishment thereafter, like a backwards culture ostracizes a victim of rape."
• "And I will raise my children and grandchildren as Quakers or any other religion that follows the true dictates of the peace of Christ, even if it ostracizes me from my family. normajean"