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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Plus a few other wackadoodles banished from labels, serving out their sentences in our nuthouse.

— Jeff Rabhan, Rolling Stone, 14 Aug. 2026
Ransoms were paid, with Carlos taking much of the $50 million himself, leading him to be banished from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.

— Air Mail, Air Mail, 1 Aug. 2026

Definition of banished

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This thriller centers on disgraced or damaged agents of Britain’s MI6 intelligence service who have been exiled to a remote Greek island.

— Monitor reviewers, Christian Science Monitor, 21 Aug. 2026
After British forces recaptured Delhi, much of the city was destroyed and the last Mughal emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar was exiled.

— Aishwarya Lakshmi, The Conversation, 18 Aug. 2026

Definition of exiled

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Investigators collected handwriting samples from dozens of people, and all the individuals tested were excluded except for Patsy, whom examiners were unable to eliminate as the possible author.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 20 Aug. 2026
But the two largest institutions — the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and North Carolina State University — were excluded.

— David A. Lieb, Fortune, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of excluded

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Duly, he is expelled from the place, and is picked up resignedly by his grandson, Kevin (Hunter Parrish).

— Jessica Kiang, Variety, 19 Aug. 2026
There have also been calls for him to be censured or even expelled by other members of Congress, especially in the wake of several high-profile accusations of misconduct in the House.

— Caroline Linton, CBS News, 18 Aug. 2026

Definition of expelled

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Throwing a pupil to the media risks being ostracized from the inner circles.

— Stephanie Nolasco, FOXNews.com, 11 Aug. 2026
Some are more comfortable than others with staging the show, like high schoolers Bones and Megan, best friends who have grounded heads on their shoulders about how they’ve been ostracized by their broader communities.

— Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 30 July 2026

Definition of ostracized

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Pirates reliever Camilo Doval pitched one inning of scoreless relief in the sixth before being ejected.

— CBS News, CBS News, 23 Aug. 2026
Cal Raleigh delivered the big blow with a game-tying three-run home run in the second inning, followed by Brendan Donovan’s go-ahead RBI single three batters later, aided by a controversial balk call that led to manager Craig Counsell being ejected.

— Meghan Montemurro, Chicago Tribune, 22 Aug. 2026

Definition of ejected

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Fedorov, a popular minister credited with modernizing Ukraine’s armed forces and accelerating the military’s embrace of technology and drone warfare, was dismissed last month after reportedly falling out with the country’s top military commander.

— ABC News, ABC News, 23 Aug. 2026
Gonzalez Rogers initially dismissed the case, though the Supreme Court later took it up and ruled that consumers could sue the company.

— Jeffrey Kopp, CNBC, 22 Aug. 2026

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