exclude
Americanverb (used with object)
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to shut or keep out; prevent the entrance of.
- Antonyms:
- include
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to shut out from consideration, privilege, etc..
Employees and their relatives were excluded from participation in the contest.
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to expel and keep out; thrust out; eject.
He was excluded from the club for infractions of the rules.
- Synonyms:
- reject
verb
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to keep out; prevent from entering
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to reject or not consider; leave out
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to expel forcibly; eject
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to debar from school, either temporarily or permanently, as a form of punishment
Other Word Forms
- excludable adjective
- excluder noun
- exclusory adjective
- preexclude verb (used with object)
- unexcluded adjective
- unexcluding adjective
Etymology
Origin of exclude
First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English, from Latin exclūdere “to shut out, cut off,” from ex- ex- 1 + -clūdere, combining form of claudere “to shut, close”
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Example Sentences
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Notably, the funding excluded immigration enforcement groups like Border Patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
From Salon
"The worst case would, of course, be that we don't have an extension of the moratorium. That's something that we cannot exclude," the Swiss WTO ambassador Erwin Bollinger said ahead of the conference.
From Barron's
Most of the displaced are now sardined in the city’s quaint Old Quarter, which lies on a promontory jutting out of Tyre’s northernmost tip and is excluded from the evacuation order.
From Los Angeles Times
A South African official said on Thursday it had been excluded from the summit after initially being invited, citing "sustained pressure from the US".
From BBC
Movie nights, some of which I was excluded from for being too young.
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