ostracizing

Definitions

The act of excluding someone from a society or group.

Deliberately shunning or ignoring a person to isolate them socially.

Examples

The group was criticized for ostracizing members who held dissenting opinions.

By constantly ostracizing his colleagues, he found himself working in complete isolation.

Synonyms

excluding shunning blacklisting boycotting banishing rejecting alienating

Antonyms

welcoming embracing including accepting integrating admitting befriending