English to Icelandic Meaning of ostracize - ostracize

Ostracize :

ostracize

adjective

Ostracize :: ostracizeOstracized :: útskúfaðOstracizes :: ostracizesOstracizing :: ostracizing

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Definitions of ostracize in English

Verb(1) expel from a community or group(2) avoid speaking to or dealing with

Examples of ostracize in English

(1) By the time of Campanella's death, only five years after his arrival in France, he had become ostracized , intellectually isolated, and antiquated.(2) But banishing doubt runs the very real risk of banishing - or at least ostracizing - thought.(3) I do not want to be despised and ostracized wherever I go.(4) He persisted in these tactics for several years despite being resisted actively by the other harvesters and ostracized on the wharf and in the community.(5) He lost the battle, and was ostracized ; most Athenians did not agree with him.(6) Churches, unions, parties, bourgeois conventions, working-class and peasant cultures no longer furnish models which all are obliged to observe if they do not wish to be ostracized .(7) No longer ostracized from the national community, the painting and its maker had become powerful icons of national unity.(8) Requiring that someone had over 6000 votes before being ostracised was an added feature to try to ensure that only when a person was unpopular with a large number of voters was exile the result.(9) In privileging a discourse about the self and the other exclusively, the expat gaze overlooks identities ostracized or exiled by the national.(10) You would essentially be ostracising yourself from your society's culture.(11) This was the issue on which opposition to him was focused by Thucydides son of Melesias, a relative of Cimon, but Thucydides was ostracized c. 443 and the building continued.(12) I would hate to see the children ostracized because of their father's activities.(13) The couple were ostracised both financially and socially.(14) Some police families worried about being ostracized by their own neighbors.(15) Those women who could not square their consciences and support the national war effort found themselves, like male conscientious objectors, ostracised and condemned as traitors.(16) It was almost impossible for them to contemplate escaping to a society that would only ostracise them and condemn them as sinners.

Synonyms

Verb

1. exclude ::

útiloka

2. ostracise ::

ostracise

3. ban ::

bann

Different Forms

ostracize, ostracized, ostracizes, ostracizing

Word Example from TV Shows

...to OSTRACIZE ill-mannered members of the troop.

The Big Bang Theory Season 4, Episode 19

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