mijden — meaning in English

English meaning

• ostracize verb To send someone out of a city for several years, as was done in ancient Athens.
• shun verb To deliberately avoid someone or something, often as a form of social rejection.

Senses

mijden is used for these senses in English:

• ostracize (by extension) To exclude a person from a community or from society by not communicating with them or by refusing to acknowledge their presence; to refuse to associate with or talk to; to shun. [from mid 17th c.]

ostracize — full definition

1. verb To send someone out of a city for several years, as was done in ancient Athens.
2. verb To leave someone out of a group deliberately, by ignoring them or refusing to speak to them.

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