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Pronunciation guide for ostracize
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- Practice the English pronunciation of ostracize with real speech in context.
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we ostracize that part of the plate
- Definition summary
- (transitive, Ancient Greece, historical) To ban a person from a city for five or ten years through the procedure of ostracism. [from mid 19th c.]
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How to pronounce ostracize
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we ostracize that part of the plate
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A Deep Dive Into “ostracize”
Meaning
- [Verb]
- (transitive, Ancient Greece, historical) To ban a person from a city for five or ten years through the procedure of ostracism. [from mid 19th c.]
- (by extension) To exclude a person from a community or from society by not communicating with them or by refusing to acknowledge their presence; to refuse to associate with or talk to; to shun. [from mid 17th c.]
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