EXCOMMUNICATED Synonyms: 30 Similar and Opposite Words

excommunicated

verb

past tense of excommunicate

as in banished

to not allow (someone) to continue being a member of a group and especially the Roman Catholic church He was excommunicated from the church for his radical practices.

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Recent Examples of excommunicated Michael Goldade, one of the new bishops the Vatican excommunicated, grew up there. — Judy L. Thomas, Kansas City Star, 13 July 2026 In the late 1980s, its ‌founder ⁠Marcel Lefebvre consecrated four bishops without the approval of Pope John Paul II, leading those involved to be excommunicated. — Reuters, NBC news, 5 July 2026 Wednesday's ceremony came 38 years to the day after Lefebvre was excommunicated alongside those four bishops — including Bishop Alfonso de Galarreta, who led Wednesday's consecrations and was again excommunicated Thursday. — Noah Labelle, NPR, 2 July 2026 Six bishops and hundreds of priests belonging to the society have been excommunicated. — Chas Newkey-Burden, TheWeek, 2 July 2026 Vatican decree targeted bishops and faithful In a decree, the Vatican excommunicated the four new bishops and the two existing SSPX bishops who participated in the ceremony. — Nicole Winfield, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2026 In a decree, the Vatican excommunicated the four new bishops and the two bishops who participated in the ceremony. — ABC News, 2 July 2026 The Vatican said on July 2 that priests and lay Catholics who are part of a breakaway right-wing Catholic group that ordained bishops without Pope Leo's approval were in schism with the wider Church and now excommunicated. — Joshua McElwee, USA Today, 2 July 2026 Many of those on the list were members of Table Rock Church, which had excommunicated the couple. — Sally Krutzig, Idaho Statesman, 23 Apr. 2026

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Catlett was banished from the United States for what her art had to say.

— Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
There’s no chance Cannes Lions will be the next one banished from the game if this year is anything to go by.

— Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 26 June 2026

Definition of banished

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And last year’s constitutional reforms had already established a one-party system in a country where opposition leaders no longer exist, because they have been exiled.

— CNN Money, CNN Money, 21 July 2026
Cuba has recently exiled other prominent dissidents, most recently José Daniel Ferrer, who have been forced to abandon the island for the United States.

— Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald, 17 July 2026

Definition of exiled

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On May 28, Johnson received results finding that the DNA profile sampled from one of Brown’s soda bottles could not be excluded as the contributor of the male blood from the victim’s nightgown, the detective wrote.

— Amy McDaniel, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 July 2026
Prior to Russia being excluded from the G8 in 2014 following its annexation of Crimea, parts of Europe were directly dependent on Russia for oil and gas.

— Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 16 July 2026

Definition of excluded

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He was expelled from Congress while facing criminal charges over stealing from donors and his campaign, fraudulently collecting unemployment benefits and lying to Congress about his wealth.

— Anthony Izaguirre, Fortune, 16 July 2026
The former was a concentration area for 200,000 refugees expelled from 247 localities, villages and towns and the area’s original 80,000 inhabitants; and the latter a frontier zone designed to incarcerate them.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 July 2026

Definition of expelled

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Three years later, censured by his Senate colleagues, ostracized by his party, and ignored by the press, McCarthy drank himself to death, a broken man at the age of 48.

— Robert B. Reich, Hartford Courant, 10 July 2026
Carlos and Smith were ostracized for their actions for decades.

— Tracy Grant, Encyclopedia Britannica, 9 July 2026

Definition of ostracized

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Scott first attended Arizona State on a partial golf scholarship, but was dismissed from the team after an incident with a visiting recruit.

— Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 18 July 2026
In our most recent conversation, Gershman dismissed the account Sebold gave in her memoir and downplayed the parts of her testimony that were more ambiguous.

— Joaquin Sapien, ProPublica, 17 July 2026

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