Usually means: Exclude someone from a group.
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  1. ostracise: Merriam-Webster
  2. ostracise: Collins English Dictionary
  3. ostracise: Vocabulary.com
  4. ostracise: Wordnik
  5. ostracise: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. ostracise: Wiktionary
  7. ostracise: Dictionary.com
  8. Ostracise: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. ostracise: Rhymezone
  10. ostracise: FreeDictionary.org
  11. ostracise: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. ostracise: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. ostracise: Legal dictionary

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  1. ostracise: Encyclopedia

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verb:  Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of ostracize. [(transitive, Ancient Greece, historical) To ban a person from a city for five or ten years through the procedure of ostracism.]

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