All ostracize synonyms
os·tra·cize
O o verb ostracize
- 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.