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Noun blackball has 1 sense
- barring, blackball - the act of excluding someone by a negative vote or veto
--1 is a kind of ejection, exclusion, expulsion, riddance
Verb blackball has 2 senses
- banish, ban, ostracize, ostracise, shun, cast out, blackball - expel from a community or group
--1 is one way to expel, throw out, kick out
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s somebody
- veto, blackball, negative - vote against; refuse to endorse; refuse to assent; "The President vetoed the bill"
--2 is one way to oppose, controvert, contradict
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
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