单词	ostracize
释义	ostracizeos‧tra‧cize (also ostracise British English) /ˈɒstrəsaɪz $ ˈɑː-/ verb [transitive] Word Origin WORD ORIGINostracize Origin: 1800-1900 Greek ostrakizein ‘to send away by voting with broken pieces of pot’, from ostrakon ‘broken piece of pot’ Verb Table VERB TABLE ostracize Simple Form Present I, you, we, they ostracize he, she, it ostracizes Past I, you, he, she, it, we, they ostracized Present perfect I, you, we, they have ostracized he, she, it has ostracized Past perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they had ostracized Future I, you, he, she, it, we, they will ostracize Future perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they will have ostracized Continuous Form Present I am ostracizing he, she, it is ostracizing you, we, they are ostracizing Past I, he, she, it was ostracizing you, we, they were ostracizing Present perfect I, you, we, they have been ostracizing he, she, it has been ostracizing Past perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they had been ostracizing Future I, you, he, she, it, we, they will be ostracizing Future perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they will have been ostracizing Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES After her arrest, Lang was ostracized by her neighbors. He had committed crimes so appalling that even other prisoners ostracized him. Many young people are unwilling to admit that they are gay because they fear being ostracized. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS Aristodemus went home and found himself ostracized, a national villain until he expiated his disgrace by dying a hero at Plataea. But it was too late to save Thernistokles; in 471 he was ostracized. Free riders may be ostracized because their colleagues can easily detect uncooperative attitudes to the company. His client is broke, Baker said, and ostracized. So she spends a good part of the movie getting back at everyone for ostracizing her. The ill are no longer ostracized as moral pariahs except by a few remaining primitive tribes ruled by superstition. They might approve of, and practice, ostracizing homosexuals from society, but stoning them to death? They said when they complained about the message, they were threatened with demotion and termination, ostracized and denied promotion. Thesaurus Longman Language Activatorto reject someone who wants to be friendly or help you► reject to refuse to speak or listen to someone who wants to be friendly with you or wants to help you: · Samantha had consistently rejected all Bob's offers of help.· She's scared to try to talk to him about it in case he rejects her again.· As a child he was repeatedly rejected by both parents. ► rebuff to reject someone's friendly invitation or offer in an unpleasant or rude way, so that they feel offended: · She rebuffed all my attempts to make things up between us, till eventually my patience snapped.· Despite being rebuffed again and again, he continued to phone her. ► give somebody the brush-off informal to refuse to accept someone's help, friendship, invitations etc in a rude and unfriendly way: · Russell tried to give me the brush-off, but I don't give up that easily.· The new director of the Urban League was given the brush-off by City Hall. ► snub to deliberately behave in an unfriendly way to someone, for example by ignoring them or being rude to them, so that they feel hurt: · Rosanna felt snubbed when she wasn't invited to the wedding.· High-schoolers will often snub anyone they feel is different or strange.· When the college invited him to speak, he was snubbed by students who felt his policies were unfair to minorities. ► ostracize also ostracise British if a group of people ostracize a person or another group, they refuse to talk to them and make them feel that they are strongly disliked: · Many young people are unwilling to admit that they are gay because they fear being ostracized.· He had committed crimes so appalling that even other prisoners ostracized him. ► shun to refuse to accept or be friendly with someone, especially because they are different from you in some way or have done something that you disapprove of: · Some young women are shunned by their families when they become pregnant outside of marriage.· Recently bereaved widows often feel they are being shunned by people who don't know what to say to them. if a group of people ostracize someone, they refuse to accept them as a member of the group:  She was afraid that if she spoke up her colleagues would ostracize her. He was ostracized by the other students.—ostracism /-sɪzəm/ noun [uncountable]:  He suffered years of ostracism.
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