ostracize Meaning, Definition & Usage

verb expel from a community or group
blackball; shun; cast out; ban; ostracise; banish.
verb avoid speaking to or dealing with
ostracise.
- Ever since I spoke up, my colleagues ostracize me

Gr. , fr. a tile, a tablet used in voting, a shell; cf. oyster, bone. Cf. Osseous, Oyster.

imperfect & past participle Ostracized ; present participle & verbal noun Ostracizing

(Gr. Antiq.) To exile by ostracism; to banish by a popular vote, as at Athens. Grote.
To banish from society; to put under the ban; to cast out from social, political, or private favor; as, he was ostracized by his former friends. Marvell.