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Definition of ostracizing : of Ostracize

Synonyms:

blacklisting, deporting, cordoning, exiling, boycotting, banishing, eliminating, sequestering, expatriating, excluding, extirpating, segregating, confining, evicting, cloistering, detaching, rejecting, excommunicating, ousting, closeting, insulating, alienating, expelling, isolating, screening, separating, secluding, blackballing, extraditing, removing, disbarring, ejecting

denying, banning, excising, disqualifying, ignoring, forbidding, renouncing, prohibiting, barring, disallowing, proscribing, repudiating, amputating, eradicating, relegating

discomfiting, shaming, humiliating, showing up, vilifying, debunking, disgracing, putting down, scandalizing, stigmatizing, pillorying, maligning, ridiculing, dishonoring, exposing, mocking

Usage examples:

• Their code required social action such as ostracizing a man of the craft who was living in adultery until he mended his ways. - "Our Legal Heritage, 4th Ed.", S. A. Reilly.
• I do not observe the ostracizing rules of ungodly sectarianism. - "Autobiography of a YOGI", Paramhansa Yogananda.