EXCOMMUNICATE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

I. (verb)

Verb forms

Present simple: I / you / we / they excommunicate ... he / she / it excommunicates

Past simple: excommunicated

Past participle: excommunicated

-ing form: excommunicating

Sense 1

Meaning:

Exclude from a church or a religious community

Example:

The gay priest was excommunicated when he married his partner

Synonyms:

curse; excommunicate; unchurch

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "excommunicate" is one way to...):

exclude; keep out; shut; shut out (prevent from entering; shut out)

Verb group:

excommunicate (oust or exclude from a group or membership by decree)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Antonym:

communicate (administer Communion; in church)

Derivation:

excommunication (the act of banishing a member of a church from the communion of believers and the privileges of the church; cutting a person off from a religious society)

excommunication (the state of being excommunicated)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Oust or exclude from a group or membership by decree

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "excommunicate" is one way to...):

boot out; drum out; expel; kick out; oust; throw out (remove from a position or office)

Verb group:

curse; excommunicate; unchurch (exclude from a church or a religious community)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody