To shut or keep out from a place, society, etc.; to deny entrance to. Sometimes with double object, To forbid (a person) to enter (a place, etc.).

transitive. To avoid, shun (a person's company). Obsolete. rare.

transitive. To banish; to exclude from favour, or from a society or group; to refuse to speak to or acknowledge. Usually in passive.

transitive. To ostracize; to ignore pointedly. Obsolete. rare.

to send (a person) to Coventry: to exclude him from the society of which he is a member on account of objectionable conduct; to refuse to…

transferred and figurative. To forbid or debar by personal or social influence the use, practice, or mention of, or contact or intercourse with; to…

transitive. To exclude (a person) from society, a profession, etc.; to ostracize.

transitive. = blackball, v. 1. (In quot. 1838 intransitive.)

to freeze out. figurative (U.S. colloquial). To exclude from business, society, etc. by chilling behaviour, severe competition, etc.

To deprive of a share in worldly activities.

transitive. To banish by ostracism; also figurative.

transitive. Of tenants in Ireland: to isolate and ostracize (a landlord or land agent, or anyone not participating in such action) socially and…