freeze out
• behave in a hostile or obstructive way so as to exclude someone from something.
• "during a banquet, she completely froze out her husband"
Similar:
exclude,
leave out,
shut out,
cut out,
neglect,
ignore,
ostracize,
reject,
disown,
spurn,
slight,
snub,
shun,
cut,
cut dead,
turn one's back on,
cold-shoulder,
give someone the cold shoulder,
leave out in the cold,
send to Coventry,
knock back,
brush off,
give someone the brush-off,
stiff-arm,
hand someone the frozen mitt,
blank,
give someone the brush,
snout,
give someone the go-by,
excommunicate,
freeze-out
noun
• an exclusion of a person or organization from something, by boycotting or ignoring them.
• "they gave him the freeze-out"
