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to outcast

to outcast

1 5.7
To force someone out of a group so others avoid them
  • verb
  • /ˈaʊtˌkæst/
translation icon : excluir
  • Even with their inflated scores, falsified awards, and power, those that have been outcast by the private schools in the neighborhood are in misery.

Like I was really kind of like outcasted or trying to fit into groups.

Examples

  • Like I was really kind of like outcasted or trying to fit into groups.

    IMPAULSIVE

  • Is it hard to be outcasted?

    Stage V (2019)

  • If they outcast you again, tell me right away.

    Stage V (2019)

  • I can still outcast most people.

    Blog text (24)

  • I started out poor, and I worked my way up to outcast.

    The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982)

  • What I think Waltz was trying to say was that although he dislikes Mario games, he still respects those who enjoy the games, rather than simply outcasting them.

    Blog text (10)

  • So that day when they should have been heading for the city and the office, she offered him a joyride; not in the usual sense of aimless pleasure, but the joy of restoration, union, in some tentative compensation for the sundering that outcast him, in his sense of self, in what she knew of him in the city.

    Fiction book (1994)

  • The group decided to outcast him after he broke their trust.

  • She felt it was unfair for her friends to outcast her for making a mistake.

  • After the scandal, he became an outcast in his own community.

Synonyms

to expel
vsto outcast
194 5.0

Force someone to leave a place, such as a school or country, often by official order

refers more broadly to social removal or rejection rather than only official action
to alienate
vsto outcast
123 6.7

To make someone feel alone and lose support from others

is about active exclusion or making someone rejected rather than only causing distance
to banish
vsto outcast
107 6.3

Force someone to leave a place or group and not let them return

covers social rejection or exclusion, not only formal punishment or banishment
to marginalize
vsto outcast
  • US
81 7.4

Treat a person or group as unimportant and push them aside

is stronger, involving active removal or clear social rejection rather than sidelining
to ostracize
vsto outcast
  • US
31 7.7

To leave someone out of a group on purpose

is the wider idea of making someone socially rejected, not only refusal to meet
to cast out
vsto outcast
31 6.2

Force someone to leave a group or place because others reject them

is broader, meaning general social exclusion even without dramatic public ejection
to excommunicate
vsto outcast
  • Formal
24 9.3

To officially stop someone from being a member of a church as punishment

is general social exclusion, not confined to formal religious procedures
to freeze out
vsto outcast
  • Informal
3 6.7

To keep someone out of a group by being unfriendly or unfair

is general removal or rejection, not only unfriendly or covert tactics
to disfellowship
vsto outcast
  • Jargon
1 9.9

To remove someone from a group for breaking rules

is broader social expulsion beyond formal membership rules

Antonyms

to include
∞ 1.0

To make a person or thing part of something larger

Compounds

religious outcast
8.4

A person who is excluded from their faith group for having different beliefs

How Excluded

to banish
107 6.3
to outcast
1 5.7
to exclude
338 3.0
to ostracize
  • US
31 7.7
to shun
26 4.6
to ignore
∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

outcast infinitive
outcasted past
outcasted past participle
outcasting present participle
outcasts third person singular

Morphology

outcast = cast (transparent) = out + cast

The verb is formed by prefixing 'out-' to 'cast' to mean 'to cast out/expel', which is a straightforward derivation.

Etymology

Outcast as a verb comes from the phrase out + cast, which means 'to throw out'. So to outcast someone is to expel or exclude them and make them an outcast.