1.
[syn: blacklist, black book, shitlist]
VERB (1)
1. put on a blacklist so as to banish or cause to be boycotted;
- Example: "many books were blacklisted by the Nazis"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Blacklist \Black"list`\, v. t.
To put in a black list as deserving of suspicion, censure, or
punishment; esp. to put in a list of persons stigmatized as
insolvent or untrustworthy, -- as tradesmen and employers do
for mutual protection; as, to blacklist a workman who has
been discharged. See Black list, under Black, a.
[1913 Webster]
If you blacklist us, we will boycott you. --John
Swinton.
[1913 Webster] black lung
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
blacklist
n 1: a list of people who are out of favor [syn: blacklist,
black book, shitlist]
v 1: put on a blacklist so as to banish or cause to be
boycotted; "many books were blacklisted by the Nazis"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
30 Moby Thesaurus words for "blacklist":
anathematize, attaint, ban, banish, banishment, blackball, boycott,
boycottage, bring home to, censure, condemn, convict, damn,
denounce, denunciate, disfellowship, doom, excommunicate,
find guilty, ostracism, ostracization, ostracize, outlaw,
pass sentence on, penalize, pronounce judgment, pronounce sentence,
proscribe, proscription, sentence