Ostracize

 WORD OF THE DAY

ostracize / verb / AH-struh-syze

Definition
1: to exile by ostracism
2: to exclude from a group by common consent

Examples
"Our mental health suffers if we feel separated, ostracized or lack a sense of belonging."
— Tracy Brower, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2021

While some artist’s foundations become philanthropic juggernauts (like Warhol’s) or rule-enforcing guardians (Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s) in perpetuity, Holt/Smithson will dissolve in 2038, the year the pair would have turned 100.
— New York Times, 12 Nov. 2021

Did You Know
In ancient Greece, prominent citizens whose power or influence threatened the stability of the state could be exiled by a practice called ostracism. Voters would elect to banish another citizen by writing that citizen's name down on a potsherd.
Those receiving enough votes would then be subject to temporary exile from the state (usually for ten years).
The English verb ostracize can mean "to exile by the ancient method of ostracism," but these days it usually refers to the general exclusion of one person from a group at the agreement of its members.
Ostracism and ostracize derive from the Greek ostrakizein ("to banish by voting with potsherds").
Its ancestor, the Greek ostrakon ("shell" or "potsherd"), also helped to give English the word oyster.