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Verb ostracize has 2 senses
  1. banish, ban, ostracize, ostracise, shun, cast out, blackball - expel from a community or group
    --1 is one way to expel, throw out, kick out
    Derived forms: noun ostracism1, noun ostracism2
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s somebody
  2. ostracize, ostracise - avoid speaking to or dealing with; "Ever since I spoke up, my colleagues ostracize me"
    --2 is one way to exclude, keep out, shut out, shut
    Derived forms: noun ostracism1, noun ostracism2
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Somebody ----s somebody
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