ostracise | (verb) avoid speaking to or dealing with | Synonyms: ostracize |
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(verb) expel from a community or group | Synonyms: ban, banish, blackball, cast out, ostracize, shun |
ostracism | (noun) the act of excluding someone from society by general consent | - |
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(noun) the state of being banished or ostracized (excluded from society by general consent) | Synonyms: banishment, Coventry |
ostracize | (verb) avoid speaking to or dealing with | Synonyms: ostracise |
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(verb) expel from a community or group | Synonyms: ban, banish, blackball, cast out, ostracise, shun |
ostracod | (noun) tiny marine and freshwater crustaceans with a shrimp-like body enclosed in a bivalve shell | Synonyms: mussel shrimp, seed shrimp |
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ostracoderm | (noun) extinct fish-like jawless vertebrate having a heavily armored body; of the Paleozoic | - |
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ostrich | (noun) fast-running African flightless bird with two-toed feet; largest living bird | Synonyms: Struthio camelus |
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(noun) a person who refuses to face reality or recognize the truth (a reference to the popular notion that the ostrich hides from danger by burying its head in the sand) | - |