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ostracise

verb

Meaning

  1. To ban a person from a city for five or ten years through the procedure of ostracism.
  2. (by extension) 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.

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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