freeze sb out
— phrasal verb with freeze uk/friːz/us/friːz/verb froze, frozen
to make someone feel that they are not part of a group by being unfriendly towards that person, or to stop someone from being included in an arrangement or activity:
I felt I was being frozen out of/from the discussions.
He believed that organizations like theirs were being frozen out.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Excluding
- acid-free
- alienate
- apart
- bar
- barring
- cut
- discount
- exclude
- excluding
- exclusion
- exclusive
- exclusively
- hold
- leave sb out in the cold idiom
- out of it idiom
- outside
- present
- present company excepted idiom
- send
- send sb to Coventry idiom
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