Wiktionary:Word of the day/2020/March 6

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Word of the day
for March 6
ostracize v (American spelling, Oxford British English)
  1. (transitive, Ancient Greece, historical) To ban a person from a city for five or ten years through the procedure of ostracism.
  2. (transitive, 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.
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