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os·tra·cize

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TRANSITIVE VERB:
os·tra·cized, os·tra·ciz·ing, os·tra·ciz·es

To exclude from a group. See Synonyms at blackball.
To banish by ostracism, as in ancient Greece.

ETYMOLOGY:
Greek ostrakizein, from ostrakon, shell, potsherd (from the potsherds used as ballots in voting for ostracism); see ost- in Indo-European roots

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