freeze out

verb

1. informal.
   tr, adverb to force out or exclude, as by unfriendly behaviour, boycotting, etc

Idioms and Phrases

Shut out or exclude by unfriendly treatment; force to retire or withdraw from membership, a job, or the like. For example, They tried to freeze me out of the conversation , or After Bill was frozen out of the case, they hired a new lawyer . [Mid-1800s]

Example Sentences

"That's enough," said Warble, inattentively, and she danced down stairs to freeze out her caller.

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Harry, who she had loved, and whom she thought loved her, had given her the cold freeze-out.

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The minute a man tries to break the ice with this little lady, it's a freeze-out.

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Sometimes there were poker games, usually freeze-out, which the men played with plug tobacco cut up into small cubes.

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I foresee that nobody will be willing to practice the 'freeze-out' on an innocent man, passing fair, if he is a substitute.

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Related Words

• ban
• deny
• disallow
• discourage
• eliminate
• enjoin
• exclude
• forbid
• hinder
• limit
• outlaw
• preclude
• prevent
• refuse
• reject
• restrain
• rule out
• segregate
• stop
• suspend