ostracizes

Verb

ostracize (third-person singular simple present ostracizes, present participle ostracizing, simple past and past participle ostracized)

1. (British, English, Oxford, US, historical, transitive) To ban a person from a city for five or ten years through the procedure of ostracism.
   • Republics have been accused of being ungrateful. Aristides was ostracised for being called the Just, and Themistocles banished, after saving his country from desolation.1836 December 15, Eleazer Wheelock Ripley, “The President’s Message”, in Register of Debates in Congress, Comprising the Leading Debates and Incidents of the Second Session of the Twenty-fourth...
2. (British, English, Oxford, US, broadly) To exclude a person from a community or from society by not communicating with them or by refusing to acknowledge their presence; to refuse to associate with or talk to; to shun.
   • You then moſt Noble Equivocations and Alluſions, whom Rhetorick would Oſtraciſe, ſeek Revenge for your Baniſhment; [...]1704, [Antoine Furetière], “Bombast’s Speech to His Army”, in The Rebellion: Or, An Account of the Late Civil-wars, in the Kingdom of Eloquence, London: Printed [for John Nutt ...], →OCLC, page 48

   Synonyms:

   blackball, cut someone dead, give someone the cold shoulder, send to Coventry, leper, brush off, discount, disregard, dissemble, despise

   Antonyms:

   attend, clock, consider, give heed, heed, let in on, mark, mind, notice, pass