escludere — meaning in English
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English meaning
- ostracize verb To send someone out of a city for several years, as was done in ancient Athens.
Senses
escludere is used for these senses in English:
- lock out (transitive) To inadvertently prevent (a person, particularly oneself) from entering a place, by leaving it locked.
- lock out (computing) To prevent from accessing a data structure.
- 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.]
- rule out (idiomatic, transitive) To make something impossible.
ostracize — full definition
- verb To send someone out of a city for several years, as was done in ancient Athens.
- verb To leave someone out of a group deliberately, by ignoring them or refusing to speak to them.
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