English-Thai Dictionary

ostracize

VT ขับไล่  เนรเทศ  ไม่ยอมรับ  expel banish oust admit receive kab-lai

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

OSTRACIZE

v.t.[See Ostracism. ] To banish by the popular voice, particularly a person eminent for public services, but who has lost his popularity.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

OSTRACIZE

Os "tra *cize, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ostracized; p. pr. & vb. n.Ostracizing.] Etym: [Gr. Osseous, Oyster. ]

 

1. (Gr. Antiq.)

 

Defn: To exile by ostracism; to banish by a popular vote, as at Athens. Grote.

 

2. To banish from society; to put under the ban; to cast out from social, political, or private favor; as, he was ostracized by his former friends. Marvell.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

ostracize

os tra cize |ˈästrəˌsīz ˈɑstrəˌsaɪz | ▶verb [ with obj. ] exclude (someone ) from a society or group: a group of people who have been ridiculed, ostracized, and persecuted for centuries. • (in ancient Greece ) banish (an unpopular or too powerful citizen ) from a city for five or ten years by popular vote. ORIGIN mid 17th cent.: from Greek ostrakizein, from ostrakon ‘shell or potsherd ’ (on which names were written, in voting to banish unpopular citizens ).

 

Oxford Dictionary

ostracize

ostracize |ˈɒstrəsʌɪz |(also ostracise ) ▶verb 1 [ with obj. ] exclude from a society or group: she was declared a witch and ostracized by the villagers. 2 (in ancient Greece ) banish (an unpopular or overly powerful citizen ) from a city for five or ten years by popular vote. ORIGIN mid 17th cent.: from Greek ostrakizein, from ostrakon ‘shell or potsherd ’ (on which names were written in voting to banish unpopular citizens ).

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

ostracize

ostracize verb they were ostracized by their fellow workers: exclude, shun, spurn, cold-shoulder, reject, shut out, avoid, ignore, snub, cut dead, keep at arm's length, leave out in the cold; blackball, blacklist; informal freeze out. ANTONYMS welcome.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

ostracize

ostracize verb individuals who took such action risked being ostracized by their fellow workers: exclude, shun, spurn, cold-shoulder, give someone the cold shoulder, reject, repudiate, boycott, blackball, blacklist, cast off, cast out, shut out, avoid, ignore, snub, cut dead, keep at arm's length, leave out in the cold, bar, ban, debar, banish, exile, expel; Brit. send to Coventry; N. Amer. disfellowship; informal freeze out, hand someone the frozen mitt; Brit. informal blank; dated cut; Christianity excommunicate. ANTONYMS welcome, accept, befriend, include.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

ostracize

os tra cize /ɑ́strəsàɪz |ɔ́s -/動詞 他動詞 1 (社会などから )〈人 〉を放逐 [排斥 ]する ; のけ者にする .2 〘史 〙(古代ギリシャで )〈人 〉を陶片追放する .