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Sailor found outside is ignored (10)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

ostracised

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'ignored' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are past participle verbs, I can't see how one could define the other.

'sailor found outside is' is the wordplay.
'sailor' becomes 'os' (ordinary seaman).
'found' becomes 'traced' (I've seen this before).
'outside' means one lot of letters goes inside another (some letters go outside others).
'traced' going around 'is' is 'tracised'.
'os'+'tracised'='OSTRACISED'

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(Other definitions for ostracised that I've seen before include "banished?" , "excluded from society" , "shunned" , "out in the cold" , "Sent to Coventry" .)

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