| 单词 | ostracize |
| 释义 | ostracize (once / 13728 pages) v If you banish someone or ignore him, you ostracize him. When the Iranian president claimed that the Holocaust was a hoax, he was ostracized by the international community. Ostraka is an ancient Greek word for pottery shard. Thousands of years ago, in the Greek city of Athens, there was a public process where you would write the name of someone you wanted to kick out of town on a broken ceramic fragment. If enough Athenians wrote the same name, that person was sent away for ten years. This process was called an ostracism. WORD FAMILYostracize: ostracized, ostracizes, ostracizing USAGE EXAMPLESThis is a hunting license to ostracize Israel from the international economic system, exposing it and its citizens to incalculable personal and financial risk. Wall Street Journal(Dec 26, 2016) Weight - and being ostracized because of it - is what Jenkins believes first led her daughter to drugs. Washington Times(Dec 25, 2016) “It highlights a family that is kind of ostracized by the community because they’re poor and always getting in trouble,” Richardson said. Washington Times(Dec 22, 2016) 1v expel from a community or group Syn|Hyper ban, banish, blackball, cast out, ostracise, shun expel, kick out, throw out force to leave or move out 2v avoid speaking to or dealing with Ever since I spoke up, my colleagues ostracize me Syn|Hypo|Hyper ostracise boycott refuse to sponsor; refuse to do business with exclude, keep out, shut, shut out prevent from entering; shut out |
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