freeze sb out
— phrasal verb with freeze /friːz/ verb (froze, frozen)Definition
› to make someone feel that they are not part of a group by being unfriendly towards them, 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.Excluding
(Definition of freeze sb out from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- alienate verb (MAKE UNWELCOME)
- apart adverb (EXCEPT)
- bar preposition
- barring preposition
- clannish adjective
- discount verb (NOT CONSIDER)
- exception noun
- excl.
- exclude verb
- excluding preposition
- exclusion noun
- exclusive adjective (NOT INCLUDING)
- exclusive adjective (ONLY FOR SOME)
- hold verb (NOT INCLUDE)
- omit verb
- on/from the sidelines idiom
- ostracize verb
- otherwise adverb (NOT INCLUDING)
- out of it idiom
- outside adverb, preposition
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