ostracize
verb
[ ˈɒstrəsʌɪz ]
• exclude from a society or group.
• "she was declared a witch and ostracized by the villagers"
Similar:
exclude,
shun,
spurn,
cold-shoulder,
give someone the cold shoulder,
reject,
repudiate,
boycott,
blackball,
blacklist,
cast off,
cast out,
shut out,
avoid,
ignore,
snub,
cut dead,
keep at arm's length,
leave out in the cold,
bar,
ban,
debar,
banish,
exile,
expel,
send to Coventry,
disfellowship,
freeze out,
hand someone the frozen mitt,
blank,
cut,
excommunicate,
• (in ancient Greece) banish (an unpopular or overly powerful citizen) from a city for five or ten years by popular vote.
• "Themistocles was indeed out of favour at Athens by the end of the 470s, when he was ostracized"
Origin:
mid 17th century: from Greek ostrakizein, from ostrakon ‘shell or potsherd’ (on which names were written in voting to banish unpopular citizens).
