0 past simple and past participle of ostracize --
1 to avoid someone intentionally, or to prevent someone from taking part in the activities of a group: --
His colleagues ostracized him after he criticized the company in public.
Furthermore, the physical repercussions of vitriolage often force victims into the fringes of society; victims are perceived as bad omens, and subsequently ostracized.
As they challenged the taboos and conventional wisdom of the time, were ostracized by the mass media establishment as "sick comedians".
She was ostracized back in grade school for developing at a young age.
He was also ostracized by many of his neighbors for being zealously antireligious.
I remember the time when even so humble a person as a postman was ostracized and punished for belonging to a political club or for attending a political meeting.
This feeling of the miners, that they are a class apart, segregated, exploited, ostracized, unfortunately, is no transient symptom.
Frankly, parents have been conditioned by a system which has virtually ostracized them for many years.
There is another important problem, which is how to prevent the sick from being ostracized.
