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Anonymous

14y ago
Updated: 8/18/2019

Quite the opposite.

os·tra·cize/ˈästrəˌsīz/Verb

1. Exclude (someone) from a society or group.

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What part of speech is ostracize?

Ostracize is a verb


What does the Greek word ostraka mean?

It means ostracize. JUSTIN BIEBER ROX! I hoped this helped.


What does ostras mean?

if the word is ostracize then means: to keep people in a group. Not to exclude people.


What is a sentence that has the word ostracize?

Do not ostracize Molly from your circle of friends just because she has braces and ugly pigtails.


What is a sentence using the word ostracize?

The Klu Klux Klan would ostracize any member who defended an African American. The faculty was known to ostracize any professor who opposed the popular dean.


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What does Ostracize mean in romeo and Juliet?

Shakespeare did not use the word ostracize so you must be thinking of someone else's Romeo and Juliet. Ostracize is a word meaning to banish, deriving from the ancient Greek custom in Athens where the citizens could vote (by writing on bits of broken pottery called ostrakoi, hence "ostracize") to banish one of the citizens from the city as a punishment. "Banish" is of course a word that Shakespeare actually did use in his play Romeo and Juliet.


What is the verb form of ostracism?

ostracize


How can you use ostracize in a sentence?

A mom could tell her son, "Dont ostracize your brother!" as in dont leave him out and make sure he is included


What is a synonym for Ostracize?

Synonyms include shun, exclude, snub, or ignore. Ostracism that involves "being sent away" has the synonyms banish, expel, or exile.


What does ostracize mean?

To be "ostracized" means to be totally shunned by those around you. You "cease to exist". Everyone ignores you, they walk past you as if you aren't there. If you interject into a conversation with other people, it is not acknowledged - it is as if you are invisible. You become what George Orwell called a "non-person".


What is the opposite of isolate?

Meaning 'to separate' or 'to exclude,' the verb 'ostracize' has several antonyms in English. One would be 'to join'; another would be 'to include.'