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Excommunicate

/ˌɛkskəˈmjuːnɪkət/

A person so excluded.

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📖 Definitions of "Excommunicate"

noun

1
A person so excluded.

verb

1
To officially exclude someone from membership of a church or religious community.
2
To exclude from any other group; to banish.

adjective

1
Excommunicated.

🔄 Synonyms of "Excommunicate"

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Word	Definition
cursenoun	A prayer or imprecation that harm may befall someone.

↔️ Antonyms of "Excommunicate"

Words with the opposite meaning.

Word	Definition
communicateverb	(transitive) To impart or transmit (information or knowledge) to someone; to make known, to tell.

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Excommunicate"

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Word	Definition
cursenoun	A prayer or imprecation that harm may befall someone.
excommunicat	Obsolete spelling of excommunicate. [(archaic) Excommunicated.]
outcastnoun	One that has been excluded from a society or a system, a pariah, a leper.
banishable	Capable of being banished.
banishedverb	Having been subject to banishment; kicked out and forbidden from returning; forbidden and prohibited.
castawaynoun	An outcast; someone cast out of a group or society.
banishèd	Alternative form of banished. [Having been subject to banishment; kicked out and forbidden from returning; forbidden and prohibited.]
expellantnoun	(medicine) A substance that expels undesirable material (typically worms) from the body
relegateverb	Consign (a person or thing) to a place, position, or role of obscurity, insignificance, oblivion, lower rank or (especially) inferiority.
disappropriate	(law) Severed from the appropriation or possession of a spiritual corporation.
exonerateverb	(transitive) To free (someone) from accusation or blame.
exempt	Free from a duty, obligation, rule, law, etc.
abjuredverb	Having been renounced, forsworn or rejected.
exterminative	Serving to exterminate; exterminatory.
expellentnoun	Alternative form of expellant. [(medicine) A substance that expels undesirable material (typically worms) from the body]
disavowedverb	Strongly disowned or denied.
exclusionarynoun	Acting to exclude something
reprobatenoun	One rejected by God; a sinful person.
alienateverb	To estrange; to withdraw affections or attention from; to make indifferent or averse, where love or friendship before subsisted.
out on one's ear	(informal) Fired, dismissed or thrown out, especially for some wrongdoing or otherwise with disgrace.