ostracize
(also UK -ise) /ˈɒstrəsaɪz/ verb [T]Definition
› When a group of people ostracizes someone, they refuse to talk to or do things with that person: [often passive] He was ostracized by the other children at school.
(Definition of ostracize verb from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary
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