os‧tra‧cize (
also ostracise British English) /ˈɒstrəsaɪz $ ˈɑː-/
verb [transitive][
Date: 1800-1900;
Language: Greek;
Origin: ostrakizein 'to send away by voting with broken pieces of pot', from ostrakon 'broken piece of pot']
if a group of people ostracize someone, they refuse to accept them as a member of the group:
She was afraid that if she spoke up her colleagues would ostracize her. He was ostracized by the other students.—ostracism /-sɪz
əm/
noun [uncountable]:
He suffered years of ostracism. [TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲