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".
Ostracize is a verb
A mom could tell her son, "Dont ostracize your brother!" as in dont leave him out and make sure he is included
(Ostracize means to avoid or shun, or exclude from a group.)"He should have expected that the town would ostracize him after he insulted the mayor.""In medieval Iceland, local councils could ostracize individuals for crimes or antisocial acts."
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Meaning 'to separate' or 'to exclude,' the verb 'ostracize' has several antonyms in English. One would be 'to join'; another would be 'to include.'
Ostracize is a verb
It means ostracize. JUSTIN BIEBER ROX! I hoped this helped.
Quite the opposite.os·tra·cize/ˈästrəˌsīz/Verb1. Exclude (someone) from a society or group.
if the word is ostracize then means: to keep people in a group. Not to exclude people.
Do not ostracize Molly from your circle of friends just because she has braces and ugly pigtails.
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.
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.
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A mom could tell her son, "Dont ostracize your brother!" as in dont leave him out and make sure he is included
To ostracize means to exclude or shun someone from a group or society as a form of punishment or social rejection. This can be done deliberately to isolate or alienate an individual.
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If she is a true friend, she would be totally fine with the fact that you both like her and are a lesbian. even if she is not, that should not mean she should ostracize you.